System and method for social networking interactions using online consumer browsing behavior, buying patterns, advertisements and affiliate advertising, for promotions, online coupons, mobile services, products, goods &amp; services, entertainment and auctions, with geospatial mapping technology

ABSTRACT

Systems and methods are provided using combined technologies for social networking interactions using tracking, predicting, and implementing online consumer communications, browsing behavior, buying patterns, and advertisements and affiliate advertising and communications, for online coupons, mobile services, products, goods &amp; services, entertainment shopping, auctions, bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results for targeting and filtering of promotions, online coupons, mobile services, products, goods &amp; services, penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising or services on a three dimensional geospatial platform using geospatial mapping technology, company-local information, social networking, and social networking communities (“PGS-GM-CL/I-SN”).

PRIORITY

This application is a continuation in part of, and claims priority to,U.S. application Ser. Nos. 13/233,352, filed 15 Sep. 2011, 13/337,271,filed 26 Dec. 2011, 13/337,275, filed 26 Dec. 2011, and 13/359,498,filed 27 Jan. 2012, each of which applications are entirely incorporatedherein by reference.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention provides in one aspect a system and method forproviding combined technologies for social networking interactions usingtracking, predicting, and implementing online consumer communications,browsing behavior, buying patterns, social networking, social networkingcommunications, embedded advertisements and affiliate advertising andcommunications, for promotions, online coupons, mobile services,Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions oronline auctions, bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results fortargeting and filtering of promotions, online coupons, mobile services,Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions oronline auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising on a threedimensional geospatial platform using geospatial mapping technology,company-local information, social networking, and social networkingcommunities (“PGS-GM-CL/I-SN”).

BACKGROUND

Time and resources are wasted in the marketing of online products andservices. Consumers waste time shopping in person or attempting tosearch for products or services online where they lack control or createsuitable preferences for access to the search results. One approachtaken in response to these and other shortcomings involves providing forproducts or services over the Internet, e.g., a system for shoppingonline over public computer networks such as the Internet. However,users and members of such systems stem usually must be registered,wherein registration and/or subscription by the user can provideinformation sufficient to identify the user, such as the users andmembers name, address, Internet e-mail address, and/or an identificationnumber, using an Internet server and a user display terminal incommunication therewith. There are, however, numerous shortcomings tosuch a system. Group buying sites leverage the power of collectivebargaining, providing local product or services deals that offer savingsfor consumers while delivering improved sales numbers to participatingmerchants.

In standard GM and/or GIS systems, geographically-referenced informationis maintained confidential and protected datastores by the creatorsand/or collectors of such data. Access to information in the datastoresis controlled and provided directly by the creator and/or owner. Withoutknowledge of the source and/or location of particulargeographically-referenced information and a password and/or certificateto access the information, the information is inaccessible. Integrationof geographically-referenced information to provide an integratedinterface and/or view of the information in context with a geographicmap is usually performed at a user's computer using sophisticated GMand/or GIS software.

Alternatively, a user can interface with a server device managed by thecreator through a client device running specialized softwareapplications to interact with the GM and/or GIS databases of the datacreators. At present access to data in a public forum is generallyrestricted by standard network security measures such as digestauthentication and certificates. However, there are problems andshortcomings with online products or services which should also providesocially conscious information about the companies that supply theonline products or services so that consumers can see where thecompanies and/or stores are located and can find out information aboutthe companies, communities they are located in, what interaction andhelp they provide to communities and/or other economic and/or sociallyresponsible activities, and to associate the geographical and othergeospatially available information connecting also by the use ofintegrated social media, which combination is not current providedand/or available.

Consumers enjoy interacting with friends, acquaintances and strangersacross many media channels, but that doesn't mean they trust them as asource of advertising. However, a new host of companies are connectingbrands to consumers through their social connections. New web technologyhas created unexpected ways for advertisers to track your web activitywithout your knowledge enabling advertising networks to secretly monitora user's activity across multiple websites and build detailed profilesof their behavior and interests.

Social software applications include communication tools and interactivetools. Communication tools typically handle the capturing, storing andpresentation of communications, usually written but increasinglyincluding audio and video as well. Interactive tools handle mediatedinteractions between a pair or group of users. They focus onestablishing and maintaining a connection amount users, facilitating themechanics of conversation and talk.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention provides in one aspect a system and method forproviding combined technologies for social networking interactions usingtracking, predicting, and implementing online consumer communications,browsing behavior, buying patterns, social networking, social networkingcommunications, embedded advertisements and affiliate advertising andcommunications, for promotions, online coupons, mobile services,Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions oronline auctions, bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results fortargeting and filtering of promotions, online coupons, mobile services,Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions oronline auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising on a threedimensional geospatial platform using geospatial mapping technology,company-local information, social networking, and social networkingcommunities (“PGS-GM-CL/I-SN”).

The invention can provide such system or method can include surveillanceand web bot software technologies via a mobile device or computer fortracking online consumer behavior and data, cookies, embeddedadvertisements and affiliate advertising, predicting online consumerbehavior and buying patterns by monitoring online activity, location,online communications, search inquiries, social networking, socialplugins, promotions, social applications, entertainment shopping, pennyauctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising,purchasing, behavior and buying patterns, consumer address books andcontact lists, blogs, chat rooms, friends, acquaintances and strangers,instant messaging, text chat, internet forum, service providers, traveland hospitality services, real estate, educational services, ancillaryservices (as defined herein) and delivery system for behavior targetingand filtering of promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products,Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or onlineauctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising, and serviceproviders business centers and affiliates for related companyinformation on a three dimensional geospatial platform usingmulti-dimensional and scalable geospatial mapping associated withentities providing and/or members of the service and/or socialnetworking.

The present invention provides in one aspect of a system and method forproviding combined technologies for social networking interactions usingtracking, online surveillance and web bot software technologies via amobile device or computer. Such social networking interactions can begenerated or provided based on tracking online consumer behavior anddata, cookies, embedded advertisements and affiliate advertising,predicting online consumer behavior patterns, monitoring onlineactivity, location, online communications, search inquiries forProducts, Goods & Services, transaction history, consumer address booksand contact lists, search inquiries for social networking activities,social plugins, promotions, social applications, entertainment shopping,penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliateadvertising, purchasing, behavior, buying patterns and other criteria,consumer address books & contact lists, blogs, chat rooms, friends,instant messaging, text chat, internet forum, service providers, traveland hospitality services, real estate (e.g. vacant land, residential,commercial, recreational, retail, shopping malls, hotels, motels, golfcourses, resorts, marinas, industrial, vacation, time shares,condominiums, multifamily, and other types of real estate, etc.),educational services, ancillary services e.g. (e.g. brokers, agents,relocation services, internet marketing, concierge, transportation,entertainment, travel and hospitality services, lenders, appraisers,education, developers, contractors, inspectors, homeimprovements/remodeling, basement designs, landscaping, home warranties,insurance, indoor and outdoor furniture, fixtures, windows, siding,roofing, heating/cooling, solar, plumbing, electrical, mechanical, andsimilar types) and delivery system for behavior targeting and filteringof promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods &Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising and service providers, businesscenters and affiliates on a three dimensional geospatial platform usingmulti-dimensional and scalable geospatial mapping associated withentities providing and/or members of the service and/or socialnetworking and social networking communities for a geospatial website(accessible via a mobile device or computer) for a multidimensionalrepresentation of information and/or scalable versions of web and mobiledevice content for an infrastructure and global platform that providesusers and members and businesses of all types and sizes with access tobroad markets for the delivery of promotions, online coupons, mobileservices, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, pennyauctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising,e-commerce, media and entertainment, sports, personal and financialnetwork, travel and hospitality services, real estate, educationalservices, ancillary services, service providers, social networking,social networking communities, online dating, gaming, retail stores,virtual communities and virtual goods, information about microloans ormicrocredit, humanitarian aid and support other worldly causes throughcharitable donations or sustainable gifts for those in need(collectively referred to as “Products, Goods & Services” as any productor service or subgroup thereof) through combined Products, Goods, andServices with Geospatial Mapping/Company-Local Information/SocialNetworking/Communities (“PGS-GM-CL/I-SN”) on a three dimensionalgeospatial platform using geospatial mapping technology. One example ofan aspect of the invention is a geospatial website that aggregates,inter alia promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods& Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising from merchants and sellers fromaround the world and/or showcases them in their actual, physicallocation on the websites live view of Earth in combination with socialnetworking and/or socially conscious information and/or activities.

The present invention addresses problems and/or shortcomings of prioronline products and services, which should also provide sociallyconscious information about the companies that supply the onlineproducts and services so that consumers can see where the companiesand/or stores are located and can find out information about thecompanies, communities they are located in, what interaction and helpthey provide to communities and/or other economic and/or sociallyresponsible activities, and to associate the geographical and othergeospatially available information connecting also by the use ofintegrated social media, which combination is not current providedand/or available.

As users and members and/or subscribers of the website, (e.g., “SocialShoppers”) shop the world for promotions, online coupons, mobileservices, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, pennyauctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertisinge.g., but not limited to, any promotion, products, goods or services.Such users and members and/or subscribers (e.g., “Social Shoppers”) canfind great promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods& Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising from leading travel &hospitality industry, restaurant, toy and/or entertainment companiesand/or top retailers around the world.

A delivery system or providing combined social behavior tracking, onlinesurveillance and web bot software technologies via a mobile device orcomputer for tracking online consumer behavior and data, cookies,embedded advertisements and affiliate advertising, predicting onlineconsumer behavior and, buying patterns, monitoring online activity,location, online communications, search inquires, transaction history,consumer address books and contact lists, search inquiries for socialnetworking activities, social plugins, promotions, social applications,entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions, bidding,bidding behavior, bidding results, advertisements and affiliateadvertising, blogs, chat rooms, friends, acquaintances and strangers,instant messaging, text chat, internet forum, service providers, traveland hospitality services, real estate, educational services, ancillaryservices (as defined herein) and delivery system for behavior targetingand filtering of promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products,Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or onlineauctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising and serviceproviders, business centers and affiliates for related companyinformation on a three dimensional geospatial platform usingmulti-dimensional and scalable geospatial mapping associated withentities providing and/or members of the service and/or socialnetworking on a host geospatial website (accessible via a mobile deviceor computer) can provide for a multidimensional representation ofinformation and/or scalable version of web content for the delivery ofpromotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services,entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising on a three dimensionalgeospatial platform using geospatial mapping technology. A hostgeospatial website can include realistic virtual landscape usingsatellite and/or aerial photography that can include many content layersof web based information, e-commerce links, social networking, socialnetworking communities and/or advertisements and affiliate advertisingfor a richer user experience. A host website shall store images,web-based content, social data, social plugins, social applicationsand/or share live social feeds from Facebook™, Twitter™ and otherpopular social networks and/or other communications in real-time.Connecting promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods& Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising with users and members known as“Social Shoppers” based upon desired location in real-time on ageographical area across multiple social layers that are displayed asgraphic animated color overlays on a three dimensional geospatialplatform using geospatial mapping technology.” The invention can alsoprovide payment method and/or system for effectuating an online paymentthrough a computer or mobile device to complete an e-commercetransaction on a three dimensional geospatial platform using geospatialmapping technology. The present invention can also provide user-friendlydesktop interfaces and mobile apps for smart phones and othercommunication devices that will allow Social Shoppers to enjoy a uniqueexperience utilizing a multitude of promotions, online coupons, mobileservices, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, pennyauctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising asthey virtually tour around the globe using the present invention.

Users and members of the present invention can do one or more of thefollowing: Use the present invention after installing Google Earth™ orsimilar plug-ins; View Social Earth promotions, online coupons, mobileservices, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, pennyauctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising,online retail stores, virtual communities and virtual goods andinformation about microloans or microcredit, humanitarian aid andsupport other worldly causes through charitable donations or sustainablegifts for those in need around the world by geo-target location on thepresent inventions unique “live view” of the planet; optionally ReceiveSocial Earth promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products,Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or onlineauctions, advertisements and advertising affiliates from merchants andsellers from around the world via the computer or mobile device basedupon a desired location; View “live social feeds” from social networkingsites such as Facebook™ and Twitter™; Zoom to birds-eye and human scaleview and navigate around stunning 3D satellite images of the virtualEarth; Type in an address and fly directly to the location on theplatform by using the zoom technology; and/or Watch videos from RSSlinks. The present invention provides a unique interactive userexperience, view live links to places and events knowing that a portionof the dollars spent on the present invention are going to help those inimpoverished conditions around the world.

The invention can further provide in one aspect geospatial websiteprovides combined social behavior tracking, online surveillance & webbot software technologies via a mobile device or computer for trackingonline consumer behavior and data, cookies, embedded advertisements andaffiliate advertising, predicting online consumer behavior, buyingpatterns, monitoring online activity, location, online communications,search inquiries, transaction history, consumer address books andcontact lists, search inquiries for social networking activities,promotions, social plugins, social applications, entertainment shopping,penny auctions or online auctions, bidding, bidding behavior, biddingresults, advertisements and affiliate advertising, purchasing, behavior,buying patterns and other criteria and blogs, chat rooms, friends,acquaintances and strangers, instant messaging, text chat, internetforum, service providers, business centers and affiliate advertising forrelated company information, travel and hospitality, real estate,educational services, ancillary services (as defined herein) anddelivery system for behavior targeting and filtering of promotions,online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services,entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising and service providers, businesscenters and affiliate advertising for related company information on athree dimensional geospatial platform using multi-dimensional andscalable geospatial mapping associated with entities providing and/ormembers of the service and/or social networking and aggregates ofpromotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services,entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising from merchants and sellers fromaround the world and/or showcasing them in their actual, physicallocation on the websites unique live view of Earth.

As users and members and/or subscribers shop the world for Products.Goods and Services, as well as bargains, they can view promotions,online coupons, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping,penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliateadvertising for various types of real estate (e.g. vacant land,residential, commercial, recreational, retail, shopping malls, hotels,motels, golf courses, resorts, marinas, industrial, vacation, timeshares, condominiums, multifamily, and other types of real estate,etc.), travel and hospitality services, educational services, ancillaryservices (e.g. brokers, agents, relocation services, internet marketing,concierge, transportation, hospitality, entertainment, concierge,transportation, entertainment, lenders, appraisers, education,developers, contractors, inspectors, home improvements/remodeling,basement designs, landscaping, home warranties, insurance, indoor andoutdoor furniture, fixtures, windows, siding, roofing, heating/cooling,solar, plumbing, electrical, mechanical, and similar etc.), loans andquotes, auto loans, mortgages, banking services, and/or any otherProducts, Goods & Services, e.g., family fun, sports, restaurants,events and/or hundreds of top consumer products, goods or services,e.g., but not limited to, groceries, apparel, beverages, books andmagazines, foods, health care, household, office, personal care, petcare, photography, banking services, autos, business, classic car parts,restoration and maintenance services, collectibles and art, custom carparts, restoration and maintenance services, deals and gifts education,electronics, fashion, financial, healthcare, home, outdoor and décor,travel and hospitality services, insurance, online services, otherlegal, marketing, medical facilities, medical insurance, medicalretailers, motors, pets, physicians, dentists, other practioners, publicservices, psychics, intuitives, metaphysical, mediums and spiritualadvisors, real estate, ancillary services, sports, travel, tourism,wedding, parties and entertainment, hotels, motels, golf courses,resorts, marinas, colleges and universities, private and public schools,libraries, post offices, government agencies, transportation, AAA,equestrian, parks and recreation, tennis, airports, airlines, onlinedating and/or any other products, goods or services. Social Shoppers canto find great promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products,Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or onlineauctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising from leading travel &hospitality industry, restaurants, toy and/or entertainment companiesand/or top retailers around the world. Social Shoppers can to use onlineaccess payment method and/or system for effectuating an online paymentthrough a computer or mobile device equipped carrier and/or a mobiledevice equipped bank using a mobile users device in connection withe-commerce transactions on the host geospatial website via a website ormobile device (e.g., mobile, telephone, PDA, laptop computer, etc.);wherein users and members create and/or maintain a rich-mediaapplication via a geospatial mapping platform via the Internetcomprising: mobile banking and/or electronic payments.

The delivery system for a host geospatial website (accessible via amobile device or computer) can provide for a multidimensionalrepresentation of information and/or sealable version of web content foran infrastructure and global platform that provides users and membersand businesses of all types and sizes with access to broad markets forthe delivery system and method for providing combined social behaviortracking, online surveillance and web bot software technologies via amobile device or computer for tracking online consumer behavior anddata, cookies, embedded advertisements and affiliate advertising, socialplugins, social applications, predicting online consumer behavior,buying patterns, monitoring online activity, location, onlinecommunications, search inquiries, social networking, social plugins,promotions, social applications, entertainment shopping, penny auctionsor online auctions, bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results,advertisements and affiliate advertising, purchasing, behavior andbuying patterns, consumer address books & contact lists, blogs, chatrooms, friends, acquaintances and strangers, instant messaging, textchat, internet forum, service providers, travel and hospitalityservices, real estate, educational services, ancillary services (asdefined herein) and delivery system for behavior targeting and filteringof promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods &Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising and service providers, businesscenters and affiliates for related company information on a threedimensional geospatial platform using multi-dimensional and scalablegeospatial mapping associated with entities providing and/or members ofthe service and/or social networking and aggregating of promotions,online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Servicesentertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising on a three dimensionalgeospatial platform using geospatial mapping technology. A hostgeospatial website can include realistic virtual landscape usingsatellite and/or aerial photography that can include many content layersof web based information, e-commerce and mobile banking links, socialnetworking, social networking communities and/or advertisements andaffiliate advertising for a richer user experience. A host geospatialwebsite shall store images, web-based content, social data and/or sharelive social feeds from social networking giants Facebook™ and Twitter™,social networking, social networking communities, social plugins, socialapplications, promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products,Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or onlineauctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising and/or othercommunications in real-time. The use of geospatial mapping forassociating information to specific places can include, but is notlimited to, one or more of: Live links to places and events; Data on thelandscape; Zoom to birds-eye and human scale views; 3D customaudio/visual content; Interactive 360 panoramas; Fly-through tours withcontent, narration, music; Stunning imagery and videos; 3D buildings andlandscaping e-commerce and mobile banking tools and hooks; Advertisingon the landscape; Advanced search for private and public information;Social networking, social plugins, social applications, socialintegration and social networking communities; Self-posting foruploading user generated content; Custom tools, social and mobile appsand widgets; tracking social behavior and the like.

Connecting promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods& Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising with users and members known as“Social Shoppers” in real-time on a geographical area across multiplesocial layers that are displayed as graphic animated color overlays on athree dimensional geospatial platform using geospatial mappingtechnology. More specifically, it relates to a method for users andmembers known as “Social Shoppers” to effectuate banking and/orelectronic payments via a mobile device or computer; accessing a useraccount, engaging in mobile social activities and/or viewing availableoptions via a three dimensional geospatial mapping platform usinggeospatial mapping technology. The present invention provides one ormore of the following advantages over online products, goods orservices, email, daily deal, coupons and social networking sites by oneor more of: Combining the community of social networking and connectingusers, buyers and sellers with promotions, online coupons, mobileservices, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, pennyauctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising ona fun collective buying site along with the fastest growing businessmodel on the Web; A portion of each “Social Earth Coupon” that is soldon its website of the present invention to provide information aboutmicroloans or microcredit, humanitarian aid or support other worldlycause through charitable donations or sustainable gifts to help those inneed; Gathering promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products,Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or onlineauctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising, as well as bargainsfrom all over the world into one fun online shopping experience;Shoppers can search for promotions, online coupons, mobile services,Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions oronline auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising from merchantsand sellers from around the world based upon a desired geo-targetlocations in each market: Easy-to-scale usability and social networkingcomponent, SOCIAL EARTH will spread virally and expand rapidly intodifferent regions because of social networking integration; AllowingSocial Shoppers to engage in social networking activities and share thelatest promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Product, Goods &Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising and bargains with their friendswill create “stickiness” and bring them back to the site again andagain; Giving Social Shoppers a fun, hip interactive experience on alive view of Earth with satellite imagery, aerial photography andgraphic animated color overlays; and/or Having a unique interactive userexperience, view live links to places and events and giving back to ourplanet.

Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a newmechanism for tracking social behavior and profiling a user during themarketing of digital content, by any means known in the art, e.g., asdisclosed in U.S. application Ser. No. 09/797,647, filed Mar. 1, 2001,which is entirely incorporated herein by reference.

Another object of the invention is to provide such a mechanism which issubstantially ambivalent to the underlying nature of the digitalcontent.

Another object of the invention is to provide such a mechanism whichworks when the user is off-line and accessing a local inventory of thedigital content.

And, another object of the invention is to provide such a mechanismwhich operates continuously, whenever consumers want and without needfor the actual physical availability of vendor and financialintermediary parties.

Briefly, preferred embodiment of the present invention is a method forcollecting user data, and optionally creating a user profile. Aninventory of digital content is supplied, wherein at least part of theinventory is pre-stored on a client computer. The inventory includes atleast one asset, collateral for an asset, or advertisement. Informationabout the inventory is displayed to a user of the client computer anduser data is collected about the user based on their actions with regardto the information about the inventory. Optionally, a user profile isthen constructed based on the user data.

An advantage of the present invention is that it provides behaviortracking and user profiling at the speed of digital electronics, yetoperates in the context of the conventional, time proven, widelyunderstood, and trusted transactional interrelation of consumer,financial intermediary, and vendor.

Another advantage of the invention is that it may be entirely automatedand may employ communications with outside services which may also beentirely automated.

And, another advantage of the invention is that it is efficient andeconomical for all involved. The initial user being tracked and profiledare not burdened and the end users of the information provided canautomatically and cheaply obtain the data being generated.

These and other objects and advantages of the present invention willbecome clear to those skilled in the art in view of the description ofthe best presently known mode of carrying out the invention and theindustrial applicability of the preferred embodiment as described hereinand as illustrated in the several figures of the drawings.

Social Networking Integration: The present invention can also provide incertain embodiments integrated social plugins with “live social feeds”from social networking giants Facebook™ and Twitter™, e.g., but notlimited to Facebook™ and Twitter™, into its website(s), which allowsSocial Shoppers to interact and share the latest promotions, onlinecoupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services, entertainmentshopping, penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements andaffiliate advertising with their friends, acquaintances, strangers,family, business associates, and others. Tapping into the power ofsocial networking users through social networking integration will helpusers of the present invention connect with thousands or millions ofusers around the world in real time. Twitter™ the latest socialnetworking phenomenon, enables its users to send and read other usersmessages called “tweets.” The present invention provides opportunitiesto use open source technology to rapidly grow its Social Shoppers aroundthe world by utilizing social networking integration and developingsocial applications with feeds” from social networking sites Facebook™and Twitter™ into its website and encouraging Social Shoppers to sharethe latest products or services or deals with their friends in thesepopular social networks.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic and block diagram view of an electronicProduct, Good or Service with /Geospatial Mapping/Company-LocalInformation/Social Networking/Communities (“PGS-GM-CL/I-SN”) informationand/or product/good/service distribution system, according to anexemplary embodiment;

FIG. 2 is a simplified block diagram showing, in greater detail, adatabase server portion of the main server system shown in FIG. 1;

FIGS. 3A-3B illustrate a screen display defining an interface associatedwith a client system portion, according to an exemplary embodiment;

FIG. 4 is a simplified flowchart diagram view illustrating interactionsbetween the client system, and the main server system, according to anexemplary embodiment;

FIG. 5 is a diagrammatic and block diagram view of a system forcontrolling the number of clicks to a clickable advertisement, accordingto an exemplary embodiment;

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing, in greater detail, the system forcontrolling the number of clicks to a clickable advertisement shown inFIG. 5, according to an exemplary embodiment;

FIG. 7 is a simplified flowchart diagram view illustrating interactionsbetween the client system, and the main server system, according to anexemplary embodiment;

FIG. 8 is a simplified flowchart diagram view showing, in greaterdetail, the initial steps illustrated in FIG. 4 for systeminitialization, according to an exemplary embodiment;

FIG. 9 is a simplified flowchart diagram view showing, in greaterdetail, an echo request step shown in block diagram form in FIG. 8,according to an exemplary embodiment;

FIG. 10 is a simplified flowchart diagram view showing a serverselection routine performed at the main server system, according to anexemplary embodiment;

FIG. 11 is a simplified flowchart diagram view showing the steps forregistration of a new user on the main server system, according to anexemplary embodiment;

FIGS. 12-14 are simplified flowchart diagram views showing, in greaterdetail, the steps of updating the master category list, plugins, andbrand logo information, respectively, that are shown in block diagramform in FIG. 4, according to an exemplary embodiment;

FIG. 15 is a simplified flowchart diagram view showing, in greaterdetail, the step of updating advertising data that is shown in blockdiagram form in FIG. 4, according to an exemplary embodiment;

FIG. 16 is a simplified flowchart diagram view showing, in greaterdetail, the step of updating PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information data that isillustrated in block diagram form in FIG. 4, according to an exemplaryembodiment;

FIG. 17 is a simplified flowchart diagram view showing, in greaterdetail, the step of updating the main server system with a user historyfile that is shown in block diagram form in FIG. 4, according to anexemplary embodiment;

FIG. 18 is a simplified flowchart diagram view showing the stepsinvolved in obtaining a client script, according to an exemplaryembodiment;

FIGS. 19-20 are simplified flowchart diagram views showing alternateresponses taken by client system 14 in response to double-clickingtaskbar icon 102, according to an exemplary embodiment;

FIG. 21 is a simplified flowchart diagram view showing timing mechanismsfor automatically updating PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information and/or datawithout user intervention, according to an exemplary embodiment;

FIGS. 22-23 are simplified flowchart diagram views showing alternateactions taken by the client system in response to selection by the userof a logo pane and an advertising pane, respectively, according toexemplary embodiments;

FIG. 24 is a simplified flowchart diagram view showing the stepsexecuted by the client system when a user selects an item fromPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information and/or data subcategory list, according to anexemplary embodiment;

FIG. 25 is a simplified flowchart diagram view showing the stepsexecuted by the client system when the user selects a particularPGS-GM-CL/I-SN product and/or service, according to an exemplaryembodiment;

FIG. 26 is a simplified flowchart diagram view showing the stepsexecuted by the client system when PGS-GM-CL/I-SN product, good and/orservice is selected and added to a cart, according to an exemplaryembodiment;

FIGS. 27A and 27B are flow diagrams of processes for controlling thenumber of clicks to a clickable advertisement, according to exemplaryembodiments;

FIG. 28 is another flow diagram of the process for controlling thenumber of clicks to a clickable advertisement, according to an exemplaryembodiment;

FIG. 29 illustrates a screen display defining an interface associatedwith a client system portion, according to an exemplary embodiment;

FIG. 30 is a schematic diagram of an exemplary implementation of ageospatial decision management system for implementing a geographicinformation system over a network.

FIG. 31 is a schematic diagram of a geospatial decision managementsystem depicting exemplary implementations of technical and managementinterface tools available to a client user.

FIG. 32 is a schematic diagram of additional components of a geospatialdecision management system for implementing access control topresentation of geospatial attributes within a network.

FIG. 33 is a flow diagram of exemplary operations for implementingaccess control to presentation of geospatial attributes within ageospatial decision management system.

FIG. 34 is a schematic diagram of an exemplary implementation of ageneral purpose computer system that that can be used to implementvarious aspects of a geospatial decision management system, includingaccess control.

FIG. 35 is flow chart and a list of representative products and servicesthat can be provided in combination with geospatial mapping, sociallyresponsible information, local, global and company information, socialnetworking, and charity/aid, according to the present invention. Aspresented in FIG. 35, the present invention provides in one aspect adelivery system for a geospatial website for a multidimensionalrepresentation of information and/or scalable versions of web and mobiledevice content for an infrastructure and global platform that providesusers and members and businesses of all types and sizes with access tobroad markets for the delivery of promotions, online coupons, mobileservices, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, pennyauctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising,e-commerce, media and entertainment, sports, personal and financialnetwork, travel and hospitality services, real estate, educationalservices, ancillary services, advertisements and affiliate advertising,service providers, social networking, social networking communities,online dating, gaming, retail stores, virtual communities and virtualgoods, microloans or microcredit, humanitarian aid and support otherworldly causes through charitable donations (collectively referred to as“Products, Goods & Services” as any product or service or subgroupthereof) through combined Products, Goods and Service with GeospatialMapping/Company-Local Information/Social Networking/Communities(“PGS-GM-CL/I-SN”) on a three dimensional geospatial platform usinggeospatial mapping technology.

FIG. 36 presents a flow chart showing a typical transaction for thepurchase online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services andmore that provides a portion of each sale shall be attributed tomicroloans or microcredit, humanitarian aid and support other worldlycauses through charitable donations or sustainable gifts. In addition,users will also be able to donate money to a worthy cause through theShopping Cart or purchasing a online coupons, mobile services, Products,Good and Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or onlineauctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising on the “Giving Back”Layer; “View Social Earth promotions, online coupons, mobile services,Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions oronline auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising, retailstores, virtual communities and virtual goods, information aboutmicroloans or microcredit, humanitarian aid and support other worldlycauses through charitable donations or sustainable gifts that will helpthose in need around the world by geo-target location or anywhere in theworld on the present inventions unique “live view” of the planet.”

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The present invention provides in one aspect a system and method forproviding combined technologies for social networking interactions usingtracking, predicting, and implementing online consumer communications,browsing behavior, buying patterns, and advertisements and affiliateadvertising, for promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products,Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or onlineauctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising and serviceproviders, for targeting and filtering of promotions, online coupons,mobile services, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping,penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliateadvertising and service providers, business centers and affiliates forrelated company and local information on a three dimensional geospatialplatform using geospatial mapping technology, company-local information,social networking, and social networking communities (“PGS-GM-CL/I-SN”).The present invention provides in one aspect a system and method forproviding social networking and social networking interactions usingcombined social behavior tracking, online surveillance and web botsoftware technologies via a mobile device or computer for trackingonline consumer behavior and data, cookies, embedded advertisements,predicting online consumer behavior, buying patterns, monitoring onlineactivity, location, online communications, search inquires, socialnetworking, social plugins, promotions, social applications,entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions, bidding,bidding behavior, bidding results, advertisements, purchasing, behaviorand buying patterns, consumer address books & contact lists, blogs, chatrooms, friends, acquaintances and strangers, instant messaging, textchat, internet forum, service providers, travel and hospitalityservices, real estate, educational services, ancillary services (asdefined herein or as known in the art) and delivery system for behaviortargeting and filtering of promotions, online coupons, mobile services,Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions oronline auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising, serviceproviders, business centers and affiliates for related companyinformation on a three dimensional geospatial platform usingmulti-dimensional and scalable geospatial mapping associated withentities providing and/or members of the service and/or socialnetworking for a geospatial website (accessible via a mobile device orcomputer) for a multidimensional representation of information and/orscalable versions of web and mobile device content for the delivery ofProducts, Goods & Services with /Geospatial Mapping/Company-LocalInformation/Social Networking/Communities (“PGS-GM-CL/I-SN”) on a threedimensional geospatial platform using geospatial mapping technology.

One example of an aspect of the invention is a geospatial website thataggregates, inter alia, promotions, online coupons, mobile services,Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions oronline auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising, serviceproviders, business centers and affiliates for related companyinformation on a three dimensional geospatial platform usingmulti-dimensional representation of information and/or scalable versionsof web and mobile device for the delivery of promotions, online coupons,mobile services, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping,penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliateadvertising for such items, including without limitation, e-commerce,media and entertainment, sports, personal and financial network, traveland hospitality services, real estate, educational services, ancillaryservices (e.g. brokers, agents, relocation services, internet marketing,concierge, travel and hospitality services, transportation,entertainment, lenders, appraisers, education, developers, contractors,inspectors, home improvements/remodeling, basement designs, landscaping,home warranties, insurance, indoor and outdoor furniture, fixtures,windows, siding, roofing, heating/cooling, solar, plumbing, electrical,mechanical, and similar etc.), service providers, social networking,online dating, gaming, retail stores, virtual communities and virtualgoods, information about microloans or microcredit, humanitarian aid andsupport other worldly causes through charitable donations or sustainablegifts for those in need (collectively, “Products, Goods & Services” asany product or service or subgroup thereof) from around the world and/orshowcases them, e.g., in their actual, physical location on the websiteslive view of Earth in combination with social networking and/or sociallyconscious information and/or activities.

Social Earth will provide information and links to some of the top realestate websites and integrate real estate information into its websitefrom third party websites such as, but not limited to, Yahoo RealEstate, Zillow, Realtor.com, Trulia, MSN Real Estate, Homes.com, AOLReal Estate, Rent.com, ZipRealty, MyNewPlace, LoopNet, Apartment Guide,Re/Max Real Estate, Apartments.com, Welchet.com, Redfin, HomeFinder,Listingbook Services, Rentals.com, ForRent.com and other real estaterelated websites.

The present invention addresses problems and/or shortcomings of currentonline products or services, retail stores, virtual communities andvirtual goods, and will provide information about microloans ormicrocredit, humanitarian aid and support other worldly causes throughcharitable donations or sustainable gifts to help those in need, whichshould also provide socially conscious information about the companiesthat supply promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods& Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising so that consumers can see wherethe companies and/or stores are located and can find out informationabout the companies, communities they are located in, what interactionand help they provide to communities and/or other economic and/orsocially responsible activities, and to associate the geographical andother geospatially available information connecting also by the use ofintegrated social media, which combination is not current providedand/or available. As users and members and/or subscribers of thewebsite, (e.g., “Social Shoppers”) shop the world for promotions, onlinecoupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services, entertainmentshopping, penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements andaffiliate advertising, e.g., but not limited to, promotions, onlinecoupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services, entertainmentshopping, penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements andaffiliate advertising, residential and commercial various types of realestate, travel & hospitality services, educational services andancillary services, auto loans, mortgages, banking services, and/or anyother products, goods or services, e.g., but not limited to, family fun,spoils, restaurants, events and/or hundreds of top consumer packagedgoods brands for, e.g., but not limited to, groceries, apparel,beverages, books and magazines, foods, health care, household, office,personal care, pet care, photography, service providers, e-commerce,media and entertainment, sports, personal and financial network, traveland hospitality services, real estate, educational services, ancillaryservices, service providers, social networking, social networkingcommunities, social plugins, social applications, online dating, gaming,retail stores, virtual communities and virtual goods for residential andcommercial various types of real estate (e.g. vacant land, residential,commercial, recreational, retail, shopping malls, hotels, motels, golfcourses, resorts, marinas, industrial, vacation, time shares,condominiums, multifamily, and other types of real estate, etc.), andproviding information about loans and quotes, auto loans, mortgages,banking services, and/or any other product or service, e.g., family fun,sports, restaurants, events and/or hundreds of top consumer products orservices, e.g., but not limited to, groceries, apparel, beverages, booksand magazines, foods, health care, household, office, personal care, petcare, photography, residential and commercial various types of realestate (e.g. vacant land, residential, commercial, recreational, retail,shopping malls, hotels, golf courses, marinas, industrial, vacation,time shares, condominiums, multifamily, and other types of real estate,etc.), educational services, ancillary services, loans and quotes, autoloans, mortgages, banking services, autos, business, classic car parts,restoration and maintenance services collectibles and art custom carparts, restoration and maintenance services deals and gifts education,electronics, fashion, financial, healthcare, home, outdoor and décor,travel and hospitality services, insurance, online services, other legalmarketing, medical facilities, medical insurance, medical retailers,motors, pets, physicians, dentists, other practioners, public services,psychics, intuitive, metaphysical, mediums and spiritual advisors, realestate, ancillary services, sports, tourism, wedding, parties andentertainment, social networking, social networking communities, onlinedating and/or any other product or service. Such users and membersand/or subscribers (e.g., “Social Shoppers”) can find great promotions,online coupons, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping,penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliateadvertising from the leading travel & hospitality industry, restaurants,toy and/or entertainment companies and/or top retailers around theworld.

The delivery system for a host geospatial website (accessible via amobile device or computer) can provide for a multidimensionalrepresentation of information and/or scalable version of web content foran infrastructure and global platform that provides users and membersand businesses of all types and sizes with access to broad markets forthe delivery of promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products,Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or onlineauctions, online advertisements (including but not limited to embeddedadvertisements) service providers, business centers and affiliates forrelated company information for such items, including withoutlimitation, e-commerce, media and entertainment, sports, personal &financial network, travel & hospitality services, real estate,educational services, ancillary services, advertisers, serviceproviders, social networking, social networking communities, onlinedating, gaming, retail stores, virtual communities and virtual goods andinformation about microloans or microcredit, humanitarian aid andsupport other worldly causes through charitable donations or sustainablegifts on a three dimensional geospatial platform using geospatialmapping technology. A host geospatial website can include realisticvirtual landscape using satellite and/or aerial photography that caninclude many content layers of web based information, promotions, onlinecoupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services, entertainmentshopping, penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements andaffiliate advertising and mobile banking links and social networkingintegration for a richer user experience. A host website shall storeimages, web-based content, social data, social plugins, socialnetworking, social networking communities, social applications and/orshare “live social feeds” from social networks and/or othercommunications in real-time.

The use of geospatial mapping for associating information to specificplaces can included, but it not limited to, one or more of: Live linksto places and events; Data on the landscape; Zoom to birds-eye and humanscale views; 3D custom audio/visual content; Interactive 360 panoramas;Fly-through tours with content, narration, music; Stunning imagery andvideos; 3D buildings and landscaping, e-commerce and mobile bankingtools and hooks; Advertising on the landscape; Advanced search forprivate and public information; Social networking integration;Self-posting for uploading user generated content; Custom tools, mobileapps and widgets; and the like. Connecting buyers and sellers withProducts, Goods & Services with users and members known as “SocialShoppers” in real-time on a geographical area across multiple sociallayers that are displayed as graphic animated color overlays on a threedimensional geospatial platform using geospatial mapping technology.”The invention can also provide mobile payment method and/or system foreffectuating an online payment through a computer or a mobile device tocomplete an e-commerce and mobile banking transaction on athree-dimensional geospatial platform using geospatial-mappingtechnology.

The invention can further provide in one aspect geospatial websiteaggregates buyers and sellers with promotions, online coupons, mobileservices, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, pennyauctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertisingfrom merchants and sellers around the world and/or showcases them intheir actual, physical location on the websites unique live view ofEarth. As users and members and/or subscribers shop the world forpromotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services,entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising, as well as the latestbargains. Users can also view media and entertainment, sports, personal& financial network, travel & hospitality services, real estate,educational services, ancillary services, penny auctions or onlineauctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising, service providers,business centers and affiliates for related company information, socialnetworking, social networking communities, online dating, gaming, retailstores, virtual communities and virtual goods and information aboutmicroloans or microcredit, humanitarian aid and support other worldlycauses through charitable donations or sustainable gifts and more forfamily fun, sports, restaurants, events and/or hundreds of top consumerpackaged goods brand/brandors for groceries, apparel, beverages, books &magazines, foods, health care, household, office, personal care, petcare, photography, autos, business, classic car parts, restoration andmaintenance services, collectibles & art, custom car parts, restorationand maintenance services, deals & gifts, education, electronics,fashion, financial, healthcare, home, outdoor & décor, travel &hospitality services, insurance, online services, other legal marketing,medical facilities, medical insurance, medical retailers, motors, pets,physicians, dentists, other practioners, public services, psychics,mediums & spiritual advisors, travel & hospitality services, sports,travel, tourism, wedding, parties & entertainment, social networking,social networking communities, online dating and/or the like. SocialShoppers can to find great promotions, online coupons, mobile services,Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions oronline auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising frommerchants, sellers and the leading travel & hospitality industry,restaurants, toy and/or entertainment companies and/or top retailersaround the world. Social Shoppers can to use “a mobile device paymentmethod and/or system” for effectuating an online payment through amobile device equipped carrier and/or a mobile device equipped bankusing a mobile users device or computer in connection with an e-commerceand mobile banking transactions on the host geospatial website or mobiledevice (e.g., mobile telephone, PDA, laptop computer, etc.); whereinusers and members create and/or maintain a rich-media application via ageospatial mapping platform via the Internet comprising: mobile bankingand/or electronic payments.

Social Earth Mobile allowing Social Shoppers to receive promotions,online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services,entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising based upon their preciselocation. Mobile apps for smart phones (e.g., but not limited to,Android™ and tablets, e.g., iPhone™, iPod Touch™ and iPad™) are providedthat will allow Social Shoppers to receive promotions, online coupons,mobile services, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping,penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliateadvertising based upon their online activities, precise location, GPS,online communications, search inquiries, social networking, socialnetworking communities, social plugins, promotions, social applications,entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions, bidding,bidding behavior, bidding results, advertisements and affiliateadvertising, purchasing, behavior, buying patterns and other criteria,such as shopping or interest preferences. With Social Earth Mobile,Social Shoppers can explore the same 3D imagery and terrain as on thedesktop version. Users will be able to fly to their current location oranywhere in the world by typing in the address in the search bar. With atouch of a button, users will be able to Pan, zoom, and tilt their viewas they virtually travel around the globe. Users will be able to Searchfor people, cities, places and businesses around the world and View manylayers of geographic information and other information on athree-dimensional geospatial platform using geospatial-mappingtechnology. The invention provides opportunities to connect buyers andsellers and reach people at the point of shopping through GPS—a benefitboth to shoppers and merchants. The delivery system for a hostgeospatial website can provide for a multidimensional representation ofinformation and/or sealable version of web content for an infrastructureand global platform that provides users and members and businesses ofall types and sizes with access to broad markets for the delivery ofpromotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services,entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising and service providers, businesscenters and affiliates for related company information on a threedimensional geospatial platform using geospatial mapping technology. Ahost geospatial website can include realistic virtual landscape usingsatellite and/or aerial photography that can include any content andmany layers of web based information, promotions, online coupons, mobileservices, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, pennyauctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertisingand mobile banking links, social networking, social networkingcommunities and/or advertisements (including but not limited to embeddedadvertisements) for a richer user experience. A host geospatial websiteshall store images, web-based content, social data and/or share “livesocial feeds” from social networking giants Facebook™ and Twitter™and/or other communications in real-time. Connecting an infrastructureand global platform that provides users and members and businesses ofall types with access to broad market for the delivery of promotions,online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services,entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising to users and members known as“Social Shoppers” based upon their location in real-time on ageographical area across multiple social layers that are displayed asgraphic animated color overlays on a three dimensional geospatialplatform using geospatial mapping technology.

The invention provides in one aspect a method for providing socialnetworking interactions using internet and mobile websites and relatedcomputer systems that provide end user customized interactive displaysof three dimensional geospatial maps comprising end user customizedpromotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services,entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising, social networking, socialnetworking communities, service providers, business centers andaffiliates, and related company and local information, the methodresulting in collection and analysis of end user data relating to enduser's online activity, location, online communications, searchinquiries, social networking, social networking community, userprofiles, messaging, viewing public & private user profiles, socialplugins, promotions, social applications, entertainment shopping, pennyauctions or online auctions, bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results,advertisements and affiliate advertising, purchasing, behavior,preferences and buying patterns, the collection and analysis used to (A)firstly provide first consumer data sets used to generate first end usergeospatial interactive displays comprising first promotional datacollections of promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products,Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or onlineauctions, bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results, advertisements andaffiliate advertising, social networking, social networking communities,service providers, business centers and affiliates for related companyand local information, using multi-dimensional and scalable geospatialmapping and integrated social networking, social networking community;and to (B) secondly provide second consumer data sets related to one ormore of (i) the end users, (ii) additional end users, and (iii) targetend user groups, the second consumer data comprising end user relatedconsumer profiles, trends and target markets, the first and secondconsumer data sets used to generate second end user geospatialinteractive displays comprising customized second promotional datacollections of promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products,Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or onlineauctions, bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results, advertisements andaffiliate advertising, social networking, social networking communities,service providers, business centers and affiliates, and related companyand local information, the first and second end user displays generatedusing a three dimensional geospatial platform using multi-dimensionaland scalable geospatial mapping, the method comprising:

(a) electronically assigning on a computer system an identifier to aclient mobile device or computer receiving a request from the end uservia a client application operating on the client mobile device orcomputer system for Internet access to websites or links;

(b) electronically providing on a mobile device or computer systemaccess to the websites or links that provide three dimensionalgeospatial interactive displays, the mobile device or computer systemcomprising a combination of:

-   -   (i) first consumer data sets used to generate first end user        geospatial interactive displays using multi-dimensional and        scalable geospatial mapping and integrated social networking,        user profiles, online communications, messaging, the first end        user geospatial interactive displays comprising        -   a. first promotional data collections for separate locations            shown on the displays, the first promotional data            collections comprising            -   1. promotions,            -   2. online coupons,            -   3. mobile services,            -   4. products,            -   5. goods,            -   6. services,            -   7. entertainment shopping,            -   8. penny and online auctions,            -   9. bidding,            -   10. bidding behavior,            -   11. bidding results,            -   12. advertisements and affiliate advertising,            -   13. social networking,            -   14. social networking communities,            -   15. service providers,            -   16. business centers and affiliates,            -   17. related company information; and            -   18. local information; and        -   b. interactive links to social networks, social networking,            social networking communities, online communications, user            profiles, messaging, viewing public & private user profiles,            social plugins, promotions, social applications,            entertainment shopping, penny and online auctions, bidding,            bidding behavior, bidding results, advertisements and            affiliate advertising; and        -   c. interactive links to websites displaying the promotions,            online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services,            entertainment shopping, penny and online auctions, bidding,            bidding behavior, bidding results, advertisements and            affiliate advertising, social networking, social networking            communities, service providers, business centers and            affiliates, and related company information and related            local information;

(c) electronically displaying on the client computer the first end usergeospatial interactive display provided in step (b);

(d) electronically monitoring, collecting and analyzing, using a mobiledevice or computer system data analysis system, the end user datarelating to end user's

-   -   (i) online activity,    -   (ii) location,    -   (iii) online communications,    -   (iv) social networking plugins,    -   (v) search inquiries,    -   (vi) social networking,    -   (vii) social networking communities,    -   (viii) user profiles,    -   (ix) messaging,    -   (x) viewing public & private user profiles,    -   (xi) social plugins,    -   (xii) promotions,    -   (xiii) social applications,    -   (xiv) entertainment shopping,    -   (xv) penny and online auctions,    -   (xvi) bidding,    -   (xvii) bidding behavior,    -   (xviii) bidding results,    -   (xix) advertisements and affiliate advertising,    -   (xx) purchasing,    -   (xxi) behavior;    -   (xxii) preferences    -   (xxiii) IM, text and email messaging; and    -   (xiv) buying patterns on the websites or links, to provide end        user output data;

(e) electronically processing the end user output data from step (d) toelectronically generate second consumer data sets related to one or moreof

-   -   a. the end users,    -   b. additional end users, and    -   c. target end user groups,    -   the second consumer data sets comprising end user related        consumer profiles, trends and target markets, based on the        analyzing in step (c);

(f) electronically processing the first and second consumer data sets togenerate second end user geospatial interactive displays usingmulti-dimensional and scalable geospatial mapping and integrated socialnetworking, social networking community, user profiles, onlinecommunications, messaging, the second end user geospatial interactivedisplays comprising

-   -   (i) customized second promotional data collections for separate        locations shown on the displays, the customized second        promotional data collections comprising        -   (a) promotions,        -   (b) online coupons,        -   (c) mobile services,        -   (d) products,        -   (e) goods,        -   (f) services,        -   (g) entertainment shopping,        -   (h) penny and online auctions,        -   (i) bidding,        -   (j) bidding behavior,        -   (k) bidding results,        -   (l) advertisements and affiliate advertising,        -   (m) social networking,        -   (n) social networking communities,        -   (o) service providers and related company information; and        -   (p) local information; and        -   (q) interactive links to social networks, social networking,            social networking communities, online communications, user            profiles, messaging, viewing public & private user profiles,            social plugins, promotions, social applications,            entertainment shopping, penny auctions, online auctions,            bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results, advertisements            and affiliate advertising; and        -   (o) interactive links to websites displaying the promotions,            online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services,            entertainment shopping, penny auctions, online auctions,            bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results, advertisements            and affiliate advertising, social networking, social            networking communities, service providers and related            company information and related local information; and

(g) electronically displaying on the client mobile device or computersystem the second end user geospatial interactive display provided instep (f).

The method can further provide wherein the social networking is selectedfrom one or more of access to trusted user-generated content usingsocial networks, accessing information from multiple networks, socialgraphs, and content sites, accumulating social relation information forsocial network services, adaptive packaging of network resources,adaptive social network management, advertising products to groupswithin social networks, aggregation of social network data, aggregation,standardization and extension of social networking contacts to enhance atelevision consumer experience, application of social networking data,assigning access privileges in a social network, associative memoryoperators, methods and computer program products for using a socialnetwork for predictive marketing analysis, automatically locatingweb-based social network members, automatically manage socialconnections, auto-shared photo album, biometric social networking,blocking objectionable communications in a social network, broadcastnotifications using social networking systems, clarifying search resultsusing social-networking information, collective socializing using amobile social network, collectively giving gifts in a social networkenvironment, commercializing ideas or inventions, communicating betweenusers, community detection, community translation on a social network,confirming an association in a web-based social network, consumptionmanagement systems and methods integrated with social networks, contentsharing across enterprise social networks, contingent rights exchangeassociated with a social network, controlling access of user informationusing social-networking information, coordinated location awarebrokering of social networks, correlation of psycho-demographic data andsocial network data to initiate an action, creating a social network mapof non-voice communications, creating a social-networking onlinecommunity, cross-network social networking application architecture,defined searching and web crawling, defining user relationships in asocial networking environment, determining a group preference in asocial network, device, system, and method of generating location-basedsocial networks, discerning human intent based on user-generatedmetadata, discovering, creating, using, and managing social networkcircuits, displaying demographic information of members discussingtopics in a forum, dynamically generating a privacy summary, dynamicallygenerating segmented community flyers, dynamically managing a socialnetwork group, dynamically providing a news feed about a user of asocial network, elements of an enterprise event feed, email confirmationpage for social network notifications, enabling location-dependent valueexchange and object of interest identification, enabling messagingbetween users of different social networks and between users of socialnetworks and users of other communication systems, enterprise socialgraph and contextual information presentation, establishing a socialnetwork system based on motif, social status and social attitude,facilitate real time communications between members of a social network,feature propagation, federation and interoperability between socialnetworks, feeding updates to landing pages of users of an online socialnetwork from external sources, file sharing based on social network,friends toolbar for a virtual social venue, generating a feed of storiespersonalized for members of a social network, generating segmentedcommunity flyers in a social networking system, giving gifts anddisplaying assets in a social network environment, graphicalrepresentation of social network vitality, highlighting emailrecipients, hosting a social network that enables granular management ofthe privacy of posted information, hot video prediction system based onuser interests social network, incentivize transactions to enhancesocial goodness, incorporation of variables into textual content,information handling system low power network communications,information security for recovery based social networking, integrating asocial network and data repository to enable map creation, integratingsocial contact identifiers into wagering games, integrating socialnetworking with financial services, integrating social networks andwagering games, integrating updates into a social-networking service,interacting with social networking in an interne protocol televisionsystem, leveraging a social graph from a social network for socialcontext in other systems, leveraging information in a social network forinferential targeting of advertisements, managing information aboutrelationships in a social network via a social timeline, managinginformation flow between members of an online social network, managingorganizational resources, marketing system having multiple fulfillmentchannels and a method for directing a personalized invitation to membersof a social network, markup language for incorporating social networkingsystem information by an external website, measuring social capitalindex in an online social network, mobile device and method of operatingsame to interface content provider website, mobile network operatorcontrolled content to mobile subscribers using social networkingmessages, mobile social networking enabled by bar codes, mobile socialnetworking system and method, modeling social networks using analyticmeasurements of online social media content, modification of socialnetworks via design codes, monetizing a social network platform,monitoring activity of a specified user on internet-based socialnetworks, multi-governance social networking groups, name conflictresolution, name resolution, networking across web based andtelecommunication based portals, observing responses to invitations byusers in a web-based social network, offering discounts, onlinepromotions through a social network-based platform, online promotionsthrough social media networks, organization of a contact list based onsocial network context, page caching for rendering dynamic web pages,page rendering for dynamic web pages, personalized platform foraccessing interne applications, platform for providing a social contextto software applications, predictive resource identification and phaseddelivery of structured documents, presenting social networking eventsvia a television receiver, processing social relation oriented service,profile rating and verification system, promoting shopping informationon a network based social platform, providing an answer to a questionfrom a social network site using a separate messaging site, providingsocial networking content, publish/subscribe mashups for socialnetworks, random voice communications through a social network, rankingsearch results using social-networking information, ranking searchresults based on the frequency of access on the search results by usersof a social-networking system, ranking search results based on thefrequency of clicks on the search results by members of a social networkwho are within a predetermined degree of separation, ranking socialnetwork objects, real time media-based social network notifications,recommending new individuals to be invited into a confirmed socialnetwork based on mined social data, recording usage of an online socialnetwork, relationship characterization and utilization from a user'ssocial networks, remote work sessions, reputation evaluation of onlineusers in a social networking scheme, resource management of socialnetwork applications, scoring individual network competitiveness andnetwork effect in an online social network, searching data in a socialnetwork to provide an answer to an information request, selectingadvertisements for output by a television receiver based on socialnetwork profile data, self funding emergency and other notificationsystem, setting cookies in conjunction with phased delivery ofstructured documents, sharing digital content on a social network,sharing social network information, sharing social networking content ina conference user interface, single login procedure for accessing socialnetwork information across multiple external systems, situation-awaread-hoc social interaction, social behavior analysis and inferring socialnetworks for a recommendation system, social capital, social context forinter-media objects, social graph search system, social graph thatincludes web pages outside of a social networking system, social homepage, social marketing, social mobilized content sharing, social networkanalysis with prior knowledge and non-negative tensor factorization,social network construction based on data association, social networkmarketing plan monitoring method and system, social network messagecategorization systems and methods, social network notifications forexternal updates, social network qualification systems, social networkvirtual private network, social network-driven cooperativecharacterization with non-social network sites, social networkingarchitecture in which profile data hosting is provided by the profileowner, social networking via communications over interactive devices,social notification for a set-top box, storing data related to socialpublishers and associating the data with electronic brand data,suggesting contacts for social networks, tagging digital media,targeting messages to users in a social network, targeting online adsusing social neighborhoods of a social network, targeting third partycontent to users based on social networks, tie strength prediction andsocial media filtration, tracking significant topics of discourse inforums, travel related commercial interactions, use with and integrationinto a video game, user pivot navigation of shared social media, usingsocial information for authenticating a user session, using socialnetworks while respecting access control lists, vehicle based socialnetworking, visual tags for search results generated from social networkinformation, visualization application for mining of social networks,visualizing communications within a social setting, web-based socialnetworking database, weighting social network relationships based oncommunications history, and youth based social networking.

The method can include wherein said affiliate advertising comprises oneor more of (a) advertising content management system and method; (b)advertising method and product; (c) affiliate distribution ofadvertisements with compensation for attention; (d) affiliate system andaffiliate device; (e) affiliate system on social networking; (f)affiliated advertising widget; (g) apparatus and method for internetadvertising and affiliate compensation; (h) apparatus, method andarticle to evaluate affiliate performance; (i) arranging delivery ofadvertisements over a network such as the internet; (j) assuredcomprehension advertising system; (k) bond issue information managementand distribution system; (l) buying and selling spots for advertisementsin mass-market media; (m) centralized affiliated marketplaces systemsand methods; (n) computerized networking device with embedded advancedcontent and web traffic monetization functionality, (o) context-basedtransactions using broadcast advertising; (p) customer loyalty andadvertising; (q) customizing an advertisement; (r) delivery, targeting,and measuring advertising over networks; (s) electronic publicationadvertising system; (t) email-based advertising system; (u) evaluatingcontent based advertising; (v) internet business co-op with rotatingbanners; (w) internet-based and tangible referral system; (x) networkinteraction correlation; (y) non-authentication access management systemfor affiliated websites linked with advertisement; (z) offeringadvertising services; (a) online platform for web advertisementpartnerships or affiliate advertising; (b) providing purchasingincentives and advertisements; (c) providing targeted advertisementsbased on current activity; (d) quality-based online advertisementtrading system; (e) revenue generation and sharing for content sharingservices; (f) selecting a website affiliate based on maximum potentialrevenue generation; (g) selecting personalized non-competitiveelectronic advertising for electronic display; (h) self-fundedcommission management system; and (ii) service system and mobilecommunication terminal for free using of data communication.

The method can further comprise providing remote computing or mobiledevice or computer system access and wherein the interactive links areselected from internet sites, feeds, pictures, videos, audio clips,social network, social networking, social networking community, onlinecommunications, messaging, user profiles, viewing public & private userprofiles, social plugins, promotions, social applications, entertainmentshopping, penny and online auctions, bidding, bidding behavior, biddingresults, advertisements and affiliate advertising, local promotionaldata based on end user's online activity, location, profile, onlinecommunication, social plugins, social networking, social networkingcommunities, user profiles, messaging, viewing public & private userprofiles, social plugins, promotions, social applications, entertainmentshopping, penny and online auctions, bidding, bidding behavior, biddingresults, advertisements and affiliate advertising, purchasing, behavior,preferences and buying patterns, online behavior.

The method can further provide wherein the second consumer data setsfurther comprise one selected from contacts information, social networkcontact information, location, online communications, search inquiries,social networking, social networking communities, user profiles,messaging, viewing public & private user profiles, social plugins,promotions, social applications, embedded advertisements and affiliateadvertising, entertainment shopping, penny and online auctions, bidding,bidding behavior, bidding results, advertisements and affiliateadvertising, purchasing, behavior, preferences and buying patterninformation.

The method can further provide wherein the method further comprisesproviding the second consumer data sets to a third party.

The method can further provide wherein the third party is selected froma government agency, a credit reporting agency, a company, or aregulatory agency according to applicable laws and regulations.

The method can further provide wherein the company is selected from afinancial services company, a product company, a services company, aretailer, a real estate company, a travel & hospitality company, anentertainment company, a penny or online auction, or other type ofservice company.

The method can further provide wherein the second promotional datacollections is based in part on prior purchase history of one or moreend users.

The method can further provide wherein The method of claim 2, whereinthe second consumer data sets further comprise one selected fromstatistics regarding donations, humanitarian aid and sustainable giftsmade by the end users or other end users.

The method can further provide wherein the method further comprisesproviding the statistics to the end user or other end users.

The method can further provide wherein the method further comprises theend user designating a portion of a purchase, or providing links orwebsites to the end user, to provide charitable contributions.

The method can further provide wherein the product or service is atravel, hospitality, real estate, educational services, entertainmentshopping services, penny and online auction services, an advertisementor affiliate advertising, service provider services, business centerservices, affiliate services, or related products or services.

The method can further provide wherein the search inquiry is for realestate related online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods &Services, entertainment shopping, penny and online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising, and wherein

a. the real estate product or good is selected from social networking,social networking communities, user profiles, messaging, viewing public& private user profiles, social plugs, promotion, social applications,entertainment shopping, penny and online auctions, advertisements andaffiliate advertising, sale or lease of vacant land, residential realestate, commercial real estate, recreational real estate, retail,shopping, hotels, motels, golf courses, resorts, marinas, industrialreal estate, vacation, time shares, condominiums, multifamily,dwellings;

b. the real estate service is selected from social networking, socialnetworking communities, user profiles, online communications, messaging,viewing public & private user profiles, social plugins, promotion,social applications, entertainment shopping, penny and online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising, travel agents, brokers,agents, relocation services, internet marketing, concierge,transportation, travel and hospitality services, lenders, appraisers,education, developers, contractors, inspectors, homeimprovements/remodeling, basement designs, landscaping, home warranties,insurance, indoor and outdoor furniture, fixtures, windows, siding,roofing, heating/cooling, solar, plumbing, electrical, mechanical, HVAC,or repair, renovation or addition services.

The method can further provide wherein the Internet access in step (a)is subject to identity verification.

The method can further provide wherein the social networking links areprovided as one selected from locate, online communications, searchinquiries, social networking, social networking communities, userprofiles, entertainment shopping, penny and online auctions, bidding,bidding behavior, bidding results, messaging, viewing public & privateuser profiles, social plugins, promotions, social applications, userprofiles, advertisements and affiliate advertising, SSLs, cookies, andembedded advertisements and affiliate advertising.

The method can further provide wherein promotion or service comprisesjob or employment search inquiries.

The method can further provide wherein promotion or service comprisestravel and hospitality related search inquiries.

The method can further provide wherein promotion or service comprises apenny auction or online auction relates search inquiries.

The method can further provide wherein promotion or service comprises ofsocial networking, social networking communities, a social networkingactivity, online communications, messaging, viewing public & privateuser profiles, social plugins, promotion, social applications, userprofiles, advertisements and affiliate advertising and other socialnetworks.

The method can further provide wherein promotion or services comprises areal estate or ancillary services related search inquiries.

The method can further provide wherein promotion or service comprisessearch inquiries related to one selected from a promotion, educationservices, entertainment services, penny and online auction services,advertisement or affiliate advertising, business center services oraffiliated services.

The method can further provide wherein the method further comprisesbehavior tracking communications with social networking, socialnetworking community, online communications, messaging, user profiles,viewing public & private user profiles and other social networks.

The method can further provide wherein the promotions, online coupons,mobile services, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping,penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements or affiliateadvertising are selected from promotions, online coupons, mobileservices, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny andonline auctions, bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results,advertisements and affiliate advertising, location, onlinecommunications, search inquiries, social networking, social networkingcommunities, user profiles, messaging, viewing public & private userprofiles, social plugins, promotions, social applications, coupons,entertainment shopping, penny auctions, online auctions, bidding,bidding behavior, bidding results, advertisements and affiliateadvertising, embedded advertisements and affiliate advertising bygeo-target location, including without limitation, daily deal coupons,free or discounted printable coupons, business directories,advertisements and affiliate advertising, text, SMS marketing, search,multimedia, operating systems, devices, banking, payment, wallet orelectronic payments, express checkout, money transfer, social media,keywords, coupons, instant messaging marketing, voting, e-cards, shortcodes, commerce, shopping, push content, geo-information, geo-socialinformation, daily deal coupons, art, penny auctions, online auctions,e-commerce, m-commerce, media and entertainment, sports, personalnetworks, financial networks, travel and hospitality services, realestate, educational services, ancillary services, penny auctions oronline auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising, serviceproviders and business owners, business center services, healthcareservices, financial services, consumer products, specialty retail,media, entertainment, lenders, mortgage companies, online dating,gaming, retail stores, virtual communities, and virtual goods.

The invention can further provide a computer system for providing socialnetworking interactions using internet and mobile websites and relatedcomputer systems that provide end user customized interactive displaysof three dimensional geospatial maps comprising end user customizedpromotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services,entertainment shopping, penny auctions, online auctions, advertisementsand affiliate advertising, social networking, social networkingcommunity, online communications, user profiles, messaging, serviceproviders, business centers and affiliates, and related company andlocal information, the system comprising system components that conductcomputer operations that result in the collection and analysis of enduser data relating to end user's online activity, location, onlinecommunications, search inquiries, social networking, social networkingcommunities, user profiles, messaging, viewing public & private userprofiles, social plugins, promotions, social applications, entertainmentshopping, penny auctions, online auctions, bidding, bidding behavior,bidding results, advertisements and affiliate advertising, purchasing,behavior, preferences and buying patterns, the collection and analysisused to (A) firstly provide first consumer data sets used to generatefirst end user geospatial interactive displays comprising firstpromotional data collections of promotions, online coupons, mobileservices, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, pennyauctions, online auctions, bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results,advertisements and affiliate advertising, social networking, socialnetworking communities, service providers, business centers, andaffiliated services, and related company and local information, usingmulti-dimensional and scalable geospatial mapping and integrated socialnetworking; and to (B) secondly provide second consumer data setsrelated to one or more of (i) the end users, (ii) additional end users,and (iii) target end user groups, the second consumer data comprisingend user related consumer profiles, trends and target markets, the firstand second consumer data sets used to generate second end usergeospatial interactive displays comprising customized second promotionaldata collections of promotions, online coupons, mobile services,Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions,online auctions, bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results,advertisements and affiliate advertising, social networking, socialnetworking communities, service providers, business centers andaffiliate advertising or services for related company and localinformation, the first and second end user displays generated using athree dimensional geospatial platform using multi-dimensional andscalable geospatial mapping,

the system comprising:

-   -   (a) a system component for electronically assigning on a mobile        device or computer system an identifier to a client mobile        device or computer receiving a request from the end user via a        client application operating on the client mobile device or        computer for internet access to websites or links;    -   (b) a system component for electronically providing on a mobile        device or computer system access to the websites or links that        provide three dimensional geospatial interactive displays, the        computer system comprising a combination of:        -   (i) first consumer data sets used to generate first end user            geospatial interactive displays using multi-dimensional and            scalable geospatial mapping and integrated social            networking, the first end user geospatial interactive            displays comprising        -   (ii) first promotional data collections for separate            locations shown on the displays, the first promotional data            collections comprising            -   (a) promotions,            -   (b) online coupons,            -   (c) mobile services,            -   (d) products,            -   (e) goods,            -   (f) services,            -   (g) entertainment shopping,            -   (h) penny and online auctions,            -   (i) bidding,            -   (j) bidding behavior,            -   (k) bidding results,            -   (l) advertisements and affiliate advertising,            -   (m) social networking,            -   (n) social networking communities,            -   (o) user profiles,            -   (p) messaging,            -   (q) online communications,            -   (r) viewing public & private user profiles,            -   (s) service providers,            -   (t) business centers and affiliated advertising or                services,            -   (u) related company information,            -   (v) local information; and            -   (w) interactive links to social networks, social                networking, social networking communities, online                communications, messaging, user profiles, viewing public                & private user profiles, social plugins, promotions,                social applications, entertainment shopping, penny and                online auctions, bidding, bidding behavior, bidding                results, advertisements and affiliate advertising; and            -   (q) interactive links to websites displaying the                promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products,                Goods & Services, entertainment services, penny and                online auctions, bidding, bidding behavior, bidding                results, advertisements and affiliate advertising,                social networking, social networking communities,                service providers, business centers and affiliated                advertising, and related company information and related                local information;    -   (c) a system component for electronically displaying on the        client mobile device or computer system the first end user        geospatial interactive display provided in step (b);    -   (d) a system component for electronically monitoring, collecting        and analyzing, using a mobile device or computer data analysis        system, the end user data relating to end user's online        activity, location, online communications, search inquiries,        social networking, social networking communities, user profiles,        viewing public & private user profiles, messaging, social        plugins, promotions, social applications, entertainment        shopping, penny and online auctions, bidding, bidding behavior,        bidding results, advertisements and affiliate advertising or        services, purchasing, behavior, preferences and buying patterns        on the websites or links, to provide end user output data;    -   (e) a system component for electronically processing the end        user output data from step (d) to electronically generate second        consumer data sets related to one or more of        -   i. the end users,        -   ii. additional end users, and        -   iii. target end user groups,    -   the second consumer data comprising end user related consumer        profiles, trends and target markets, based on the analyzing in        step (c);    -   (f) electronically processing the first and second consumer data        sets to generate second end user geospatial interactive displays        using multi-dimensional and scalable geospatial mapping and        integrated social networking, the second end user geospatial        interactive displays comprising        -   (i) customized second promotional data collections for            separate locations shown on the displays, the customized            second promotional data collections comprising            -   (a) promotions,            -   (b) online coupons,            -   (c) mobile services,            -   (d) products,            -   (e) goods,            -   (f) services,            -   (g) entertainment shopping,            -   (h) penny and online auctions,            -   (i) bidding,            -   (j) bidding behavior,            -   (k) bidding results,            -   (l) advertisements and affiliate advertising or                services,            -   (m) social networking,            -   (n) social networking communities,            -   (o) user profiles.            -   (p) messaging,            -   (q) online communications,            -   (r) viewing public & private profiles,            -   (s) service providers;            -   (t) business centers and affiliated advertising or                services,            -   (u) related company information; and            -   (v) local information;            -   (w) interactive links to social networks, online                communications, social networking, user profiles,                messaging, viewing public & private user profiles,                social plugins, promotions, social applications,                entertainment shopping, penny and online auctions,                bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results,                advertisements and affiliate advertising; and            -   (n) interactive links to websites displaying the                promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products,                Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny and                online auctions, bidding, bidding behavior, bidding                results, advertisements and affiliate advertising or                services, social networking, social networking                community, service providers, business centers, and                affiliated services, and related company information and                related local information;    -   (g) electronically displaying on the client mobile device or        computer system the second end user geospatial interactive        display provided in step (f).

More specifically, it relates to a method for users and members known as“Social Shoppers” to effectuate banking and/or electronic payments via acomputer or mobile device; accessing a user account, engaging in mobilesocial activities and/or viewing available options via a threedimensional geospatial mapping platform using geospatial mappingtechnology.

The present invention thus provides alternative social networkinginteractions, as functions or content, access, systems, and the like, asknown in the art, or as described herein, which can include, but are notlimited to, access to trusted user-generated content using socialnetworks, accessing information from multiple networks, social graphs,and content sites, accumulating social relation information for socialnetwork services, adaptive packaging of network resources, adaptivesocial network management, advertising products to groups within socialnetworks, aggregation of social network data, aggregation,standardization and extension of social networking contacts to enhance atelevision consumer experience, application of social networking data,assigning access privileges in a social network, associative memoryoperators, methods and computer program products for using a socialnetwork for predictive marketing analysis, automatically locatingweb-based social network members, automatically manage socialconnections, auto-shared photo album, biometric social networking,blocking objectionable communications in a social network, broadcastnotifications using social networking systems, clarifying search resultsusing social-networking information, collective socializing using amobile social network, collectively giving gifts in a social networkenvironment, commercializing ideas or inventions, communicating betweenusers, community detection, community translation on a social network,confirming an association in a web-based social network, consumptionmanagement systems and methods integrated with social networks, contentsharing across enterprise social networks, contingent rights exchangeassociated with a social network, controlling access of user informationusing social-networking information, coordinated location awarebrokering of social networks, correlation of psycho-demographic data andsocial network data to initiate an action, creating a social network mapof non-voice communications, creating a social-networking onlinecommunity, cross-network social networking application architecture,defined searching and web crawling, defining user relationships in asocial networking environment, determining a group preference in asocial network, device, system, and method of generating location-basedsocial networks, discerning human intent based on user-generatedmetadata, discovering, creating, using, and managing social networkcircuits, displaying demographic information of members discussingtopics in a forum, dynamically generating a privacy summary, dynamicallygenerating segmented community flyers, dynamically managing a socialnetwork group, dynamically providing a news feed about a user of asocial network, elements of an enterprise event feed, email confirmationpage for social network notifications, enabling location-dependent valueexchange and object of interest identification, enabling messagingbetween users of different social networks and between users of socialnetworks and users of other communication systems, enterprise socialgraph and contextual information presentation, establishing a socialnetwork system based on motif, social status and social attitude,facilitate real time communications between members of a social network,feature propagation, federation and interoperability between socialnetworks, feeding updates to landing pages of users of an online socialnetwork from external sources, file sharing based on social network,friends toolbar for a virtual social venue, generating a feed of storiespersonalized for members of a social network, generating segmentedcommunity flyers in a social networking system, giving gifts anddisplaying assets in a social network environment, graphicalrepresentation of social network vitality, highlighting emailrecipients, hosting a social network that enables granular management ofthe privacy of posted information, hot video prediction system based onuser interests social network, incentivize transactions to enhancesocial goodness, incorporation of variables into textual content,information handling system low power network communications,information security for recovery based social networking, integrating asocial network and data repository to enable map creation, integratingsocial contact identifiers into wagering games, integrating socialnetworking with financial services, integrating social networks andwagering games, integrating updates into a social-networking service,interacting with social networking in an interne protocol televisionsystem, leveraging a social graph from a social network for socialcontext in other systems, leveraging information in a social network forinferential targeting of advertisements, managing information aboutrelationships in a social network via a social timeline, managinginformation flow between members of an online social network, managingorganizational resources, marketing system having multiple fulfillmentchannels and a method for directing a personalized invitation to membersof a social network, markup language for incorporating social networkingsystem information by an external website, measuring social capitalindex in an online social network, mobile device and method of operatingsame to interface content provider website, mobile network operatorcontrolled content to mobile subscribers using social networkingmessages, mobile social networking enabled by bar codes, mobile socialnetworking system and method, modeling social networks using analyticmeasurements of online social media content, modification of socialnetworks via design codes, monetizing a social network platform,monitoring activity of a specified user on internet-based socialnetworks, multi-governance social networking groups, name conflictresolution, name resolution, networking across web based andtelecommunication based portals, observing responses to invitations byusers in a web-based social network, offering discounts, onlinepromotions through a social network-based platform, online promotionsthrough social media networks, organization of a contact list based onsocial network context, page caching for rendering dynamic web pages,page rendering for dynamic web pages, personalized platform foraccessing interne applications, platform for providing a social contextto software applications, predictive resource identification and phaseddelivery of structured documents, presenting social networking eventsvia a television receiver, processing social relation oriented service,profile rating and verification system, promoting shopping informationon a network based social platform, providing an answer to a questionfrom a social network site using a separate messaging site, providingsocial networking content, publish/subscribe mashups for socialnetworks, random voice communications through a social network, rankingsearch results using social-networking information, ranking searchresults based on the frequency of access on the search results by usersof a social-networking system, ranking search results based on thefrequency of clicks on the search results by members of a social networkwho are within a predetermined degree of separation, ranking socialnetwork objects, real time media-based social network notifications,recommending new individuals to be invited into a confirmed socialnetwork based on mined social data, recording usage of an online socialnetwork, relationship characterization and utilization from a user'ssocial networks, remote work sessions, reputation evaluation of onlineusers in a social networking scheme, resource management of socialnetwork applications, scoring individual network competitiveness andnetwork effect in an online social network, searching data in a socialnetwork to provide an answer to an information request, selectingadvertisements for output by a television receiver based on socialnetwork profile data, self funding emergency and other notificationsystem, setting cookies in conjunction with phased delivery ofstructured documents, sharing digital content on a social network,sharing social network information, sharing social networking content ina conference user interface, single login procedure for accessing socialnetwork information across multiple external systems, situation-awaread-hoc social interaction, social behavior analysis and inferring socialnetworks for a recommendation system, social capital, social context forinter-media objects, social graph search system, social graph thatincludes web pages outside of a social networking system, social homepage, social marketing, social mobilized content sharing, social networkanalysis with prior knowledge and non-negative tensor factorization,social network construction based on data association, social networkmarketing plan monitoring method and system, social network messagecategorization systems and methods, social network notifications forexternal updates, social network qualification systems, social networkvirtual private network, social network-driven cooperativecharacterization with non-social network sites, social networkingarchitecture in which profile data hosting is provided by the profileowner, social networking via communications over interactive devices,social notification for a set-top box, storing data related to socialpublishers and associating the data with electronic brand data,suggesting contacts for social networks, tagging digital media,targeting messages to users in a social network, targeting online adsusing social neighborhoods of a social network, targeting third partycontent to users based on social networks, tie strength prediction andsocial media filtration, tracking significant topics of discourse inforums, travel related commercial interactions, use with and integrationinto a video game, user pivot navigation of shared social media, usingsocial information for authenticating a user session, using socialnetworks while respecting access control lists, vehicle based socialnetworking, visual tags for search results generated from social networkinformation, visualization application for mining of social networks,visualizing communications within a social setting, web-based socialnetworking database, weighting social network relationships based oncommunications history, youth based social networking. 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A social networking service is an online service, platform, or site thatfocuses on building and reflecting of social networks or socialrelations among people, who, for example, share interests and/oractivities. A social network service essentially consists of arepresentation of each user (often a profile), his/her social links, anda variety of additional services. Most social network services are webbased and provide means for users to interact over the Internet, such ase-mail, blogs, chat rooms and instant messaging. Online communityservices are sometimes considered as a social network service, though ina broader sense, social network service usually means anindividual-centered service, whereas online community services aregroup-centered. Social networking sites allow users to share ideas,activities, events, and interests within their individual networks. Themain types of social networking services are those, which containcategory places (such as former school year or classmates), means toconnect with friends (usually with self-description pages) and arecommendation system linked to trust. Other non-limiting examples caninclude one or more of the following, e.g., w Facebook™ and Twitter™widely used worldwide, Nexopia (mostly in Canada); Bebo, VKontakte, Hi5,Hyves (mostly in The Netherlands), Draugiem.1v (mostly in Latvia),StudiVZ (mostly in Germany), iWiW (mostly in Hungary), Tuenti (mostly inSpain), Nasza-Klasa (mostly in Poland), Decayenne, Tagged, XING, Badooand Skyrock in parts of Europe; Orkut and Hi5 in South America andCentral America; and Mixi, Multiply, Orkut, Wretch, renren and Cyworldin Asia and the Pacific Islands and LinkedIn and Orkut are very popularin India.

A social network is a social structure made up of individuals (ororganizations) called “nodes”, which are tied (connected) by one or morespecific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, commoninterest, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, orrelationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige.

Geospatial analysis is an approach to applying statistical analysis andother informational techniques to geographically based data. Suchanalysis employs spatial software and analytical methods withterrestrial or geographic datasets, including geographic informationsystems and geomatics. Google Earth™ is a non-limiting example of theapplication of geospatial analysis, where it provides a virtual globe,map and geographical information program. Google Earth™ is a virtualglobe, map and geographic information program that layered withgeographic information. Google Earth™ is available for Android, Windows2000, XP, Vista, 7, Mac OS X, Blackberry Storm, iOS and Linux. GoogleEarth™ provides a wealth of topographical information about our planetEarth on a variety of subjects. Google Earth™ lets you fly anywhere toview satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, galaxies in outerspace, and the depths of the ocean. With Google Earth™ 6, users canexplore the streets in 3D like never before. Fly from outer space downto the streets with the new Street View and easily navigate your wayaround. Google Earth™ has also been able to assist in promotingawareness of global problems such as Hurricane Katrina, the war in Iraqand photos of the post Japan earthquake panoramas in Google Earth™.Google Earth™ has many “layers” of data, including videos, photos,Wikipedia, real-time weather, real-time traffic, 3D buildings, GPStracks and more. The release of free Web mapping applications opened upprintable mapping to mainstream Internet users. Google™ also releasedfree APIs for their Google Earth™ platform, allowing users to geo-locateand map their own data. Google is apparently working on a faster, easierGoogle Earth™ plug-in download as well as an improved Google Earth™mobile app. The Google Earth™ API is a free service, available for anyweb site that is free to consumers. The Plug-in and its JavaScript APIallows users to place a version of Google Earth™ into web pages. The APIdoes not have all the features of the full Google Earth™ Application butenables sophisticated 3D map applications to be built, including use forGM of the present invention. The Google Earth™ Plug-in and itsJavaScript API let you embed Google Earth™, a true 3D digital globe,into your web pages. Using the API you can draw markers and lines, drapeimages over the terrain, add 3D models, or load KML files, allowing youto build sophisticated 3D map applications.

In marketing, a coupon is a ticket or document that can be exchanged fora financial discount or rebate when purchasing a product. Customarily,coupons are issued by manufacturers of consumer-packaged goods or byretailers, to be used in retail stores as a part of sales promotions.They are often widely distributed through mail, magazines, newspapers,the Internet, directly from the retailer, and mobile devices such ascell phones. Since only price conscious consumers are likely to spendthe time to claim the savings, coupons function as a form of pricediscrimination, enabling retailers to offer a lower price only to thoseconsumers who would otherwise go elsewhere. In addition, coupons canalso be targeted selectively to regional markets in which pricecompetition is great. Internet Coupons: Online retailers often refer tocoupons as “coupon codes,” “promotional codes,” “promotion codes,”“discount codes,” “key codes,” “promo codes,” “surplus codes,” “portablecodes,” “shopping codes,” “voucher codes,” “reward codes” “discountvouchers” or “source codes.” Internet coupons typically provide forreduced cost or free shipping, a specific dollar or percentage discount,or some other offer to encourage consumers to purchase specific productsor to purchase from specific retailers. Because paper coupons would bedifficult to redeem, typically secret words or codes are distributed forconsumers to type in at checkout. Marketers can use different codes fordifferent channels our groups in order to distinguish response rates.

The present invention can in one embodiment gather basic demographicprofile information including the user's current location and behaviordata as they purchase and/or view promotions, online coupons, mobileservices, Products, Goods or Services, entertainment shopping, pennyauctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising orservices on Social Earth, which can be sent to advertisers or otherwisecapitalized by the users of the invention. By gathering this valuabledemographic information, the present invention provides the ability totarget market to Social Shoppers based upon specific location,demographic profile and selected social layer. This data can alsoinclude GPS for mobile user, which can be sent to advertisers serversfor target mobile marketing based upon the users' location and buyingpreferences. The present invention can also provide fast access by, whenvisiting a website of a user of the present invention, Social Shopperscan access as easily as entering their email address and select a cityto access the site. The present invention can use email addresses andselected city for future email marketing. For example, In just 2, 3, 4,5, 6, 7 or other number of clicks, Social Shoppers are ready to use theinventions website after they download a Google Earth™ or similarplug-in, or visit the Apple™, Android™, or similar marketplace for theirsmart phone,

Social Networking Integration: The present invention can also provide incertain embodiments social networking links, tracking, collection and/oranalysis, including integrated social plugins with “live social feeds”from social networking sites, e.g., but not limited to Facebook™ andTwitter™, into its website(s), which allows Social Shoppers to interactand share the latest product or services deals with their friends,family, business associates, and others. Tapping into social networkingusers through social networking integration will help users and membersof the present invention connect with thousands or millions of users andmembers. Twitter™ the latest social networking phenomenon, enables itsusers and members to send and read other users and members' messagescalled “tweets.” The present invention provides opportunities to useopen source technology to rapidly grow its Social Shoppers around theworld by utilizing social networking integration with “live socialfeeds” from social networking sites into its website and encouragingSocial Shoppers to share the latest promotions, online coupons, mobileservices, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, pennyauctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertisingwith their friends on Social Earth or in these popular social networks.

Social Software Applications. Social software applications includecommunication tools and interactive tools. Communication tools typicallyhandle the capturing, storing and presentation of communications,usually written but increasingly including audio and video as well,which can also include tracking and predicting of online communicationsvia a mobile device or computer with respect to third party applicationsand outside social networks such as e.g. Facebook™, Twitter™, Skype™ andother social networks around the world. Interactive tools handlemediated interactions between a pair or group of users. They focus onestablishing and maintaining a connection amount users, facilitating themechanics of conversation and talk.

Instant Messaging: An instant messaging application or client allows oneto communicate with another person over a network in real time, inrelative privacy. One can add friends to a contact or buddy list byentering the person's email address or messenger ID.

Text Chat: Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and other online chat technologiesallow users to join and communicate with many people at once,publically.

Groupware: Groupware software allows subjects to share data such asfiles, photos, text, etc.

Internet Forums: Internet forums allow users to post a “topic” forothers to review. Other users can view the topic and post their owncomments in a linear fashion, one after the other.

Wikis: A wiki is a web page whose content can be edited by its visitors.

Blogs: Blogs, short for web logs, are online journals for a particularperson. The owner will post a message periodically, allowing others tocomment. Topics often include the owner's daily life, views on politicsor a particular subject important to them.

Prediction Markets: Many predictions market tools have become availablethat make it easy to predict and bet on future events. This is a moreformal version of social interaction, although it qualifies as a robusttype of social software.

Social Networking Services: Social networking services allow people tocome together online around shared interests, hobbies or causes.

Social Engine: Social engine refers to a web based framework andplatform for developing custom social apps as well as hosting them. Asocial engine acts as a web operating system for developing all kinds ofsocial networking services and projects.

Social Guides: A social guide recommending places to visit or containsinformation about places in the real world such as coffee shops,restaurants and wife hotspots, etc.

Social Bookmarking: Some web sites allow users to post their list ofbookmarks or favorite website for others to search and view them.

Social Cataloging: Social cataloging is a software aimed towardsacademics. It allows the user to post a citation for an article found onthe Internet or a website, online database like Academic Search Premieror LexisNexis.

Social Online Storage: Social online storage applications allow theirusers to collaboratively create file archives containing files of anytype. Files can either be edited online or from a local computer whichhas access to the storage system.

Social Plugins: A button placed on a website and blogs that members canclick to share their interests in a site with their friends. A Like Boxcan also be added to a web page that provides a scrolling window intothe organization's Facebook™ page. The Like Button and Like Box arecalled “social plugins.”

Virtual Worlds: Virtual worlds are services where it is possible to meetand interact with other people in a virtual environment reminiscent ofthe real world. Thus the term virtual reality. Typically, the usermanipulates an avatar through the world, interacting with others usingchat or voice chat.

Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs): MMOG's are virtual worldsthat add various sorts of point systems, levels, competition and winnersand losers to virtual world simulation.

Computer Surveillance: Computer surveillance is the act of performsurveillance of computer or mobile activity and of data stored on a harddrive or being transferred over the Internet.

Network Surveillance: The vast majority of computer surveillanceinvolves the monitoring of data and traffic on the Internet. In theUnited States for example, under the Commissions Assistance For LawEnforcement Act, all phone calls and broadband internet traffic (emails,web traffic, instant messaging, etc.) are required to be available forunimpeded real-time monitoring by Federal law enforcement agencies.

Penny Auctions or Online Auctions: Is an auction where bidderspay-per-bid for an item and the time increases with each bid.

Web Bot: Web bot is a software program that is claimed to be able topredict future events by tracking keywords entered on the Internet.Internet bots monitor articles, blogs, forums and other forms ofInternet chatter. Words in the lexicon are assigned numeric values foremotional quantifiers such as duration, impact, immediacy, intensity andothers.

Non Limiting Examples of Alternative Implementations of the PresentInvention

The present invention provides in one aspect combining social behaviortracking, online surveillance and web bot software technologies via amobile device or computer for tracking consumer behavior and data,cookies, embedded advertisements and affiliate advertising, predictingonline consumer behavior by monitoring online activity, onlinecommunications, search inquiries, social networking, social plugins,promotions, social applications, entertainment shopping, penny auctionsor online auctions, bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results,advertisements and affiliate advertising, purchasing behavior, buyingpatters and other criteria, consumer address books & contact lists,blogs, chat rooms, friends, acquaintances and strangers, instantmessaging, text chat, internet forum, service providers, travel &hospitality, real estate, educational services, ancillary services (asdefined herein) and delivery system for behavior targeting and filteringof promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods &Services, penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements andaffiliate advertising or services and service providers, businesscenters and affiliates for related company information on a threedimensional geospatial platform using multi-dimensional and scalablegeospatial mapping associated with entities providing and/or members ofthe service and/or social networking communities.

Unlike other shopping sites, when site subscribers using the presentinvention, called Social Shoppers (or “SE SHOPPERS”), visit a website ofthe invention, they are invited to travel virtually just about any wherein the world in search of the best promotions, online coupons, mobileservices, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, pennyauctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising orservices as they shop for the best bargains on the planet. Thisone-of-a-kind website aggregates “daily deal coupons” and “free”printable coupons from major brands from around the world (collectivelyreferred to as “Social Earth Coupons”) and showcase them in theiractual, physical location on the websites unique “live view” of Earth.As Social Shoppers shop the world for promotions, online coupons, mobileservices, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, pennyauctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising orservices as well as view bargains, online coupons and offers from majorbrands for family fun, sports, restaurants, events and hundreds of topconsumer packaged goods brands for groceries, apparel, beverages, books& magazines, foods, health care, household, office, personal care, petcare, photography and the like. Social Shoppers will find greatpromotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services,entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising or services from merchants andsellers from the leading travel & hospitality industry, restaurants, toyand entertainment companies and top retailers around the world.

Social Shoppers can select target locations anywhere in the U.S. such asAtlanta, Austin, Dallas, Denver, San Diego, and San Francisco or in anyother cities around the world. Social Shoppers, e.g., can find products,goods or services or advertisements and affiliate advertising around theworld in place such as London, Paris or Rome or they can tour the planetat will, jumping from Hong Kong to Amsterdam to Buenos Aires to checkout the local promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products,Goods & Services, as well as entertainment shopping, penny auctions oronline auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising or servicingfrom merchants and sellers from around the world. Because the Earth viewcomes live from satellite and webcam images, shoppers can zoom in for acloser look or zoom out to gain perspective on the location. Such anaspect of the present invention displays, organizes and deliversinformation across many social layers and social media sites featuringtop-notch content, stunning satellite imagery, aerial photography andgraphic animated color overlays on top of Google Earth™.

The present invention delivers a delightful mash-up of content, Couponsand live social feeds” from Facebook™ and Twitter™ or other popularsocial networks around the world. The present invention utilizes socialnetworking platforms such as, but not limited to, Facebook™ andTwitter™, to allow Social Shoppers to share the latest promotions,online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services,entertainment services, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising or services with their friendson Social Earth or in these popular social networking giants. Unlikeother sites, the present invention aggregates promotions, onlinecoupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services, entertainmentshopping, penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements andaffiliate advertising or services on its site daily, but they won't lastjust one day. The present invention can further provide products, goodsor services or advertisements and affiliate advertising can last fordays, weeks or even months. Social Shoppers are encouraged to sharethese promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods &Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising or services with their friendson Social Earth or in Facebook™ and Twitter™ or other social networkingavenues. The global sharing capabilities are built into the presentinventions technology using sophisticated technology integratinggeospatial mapping, layering location-relevant data and GPStechnologies. Social Shoppers are able to find great promotions, onlinecoupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services, entertainmentshopping, penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements andaffiliate advertisings or services in their local areas or just aboutanywhere else in the world with the click of a mouse or mobile device.Capitalizing on the popularity of social networking giants Facebook™ andTwitter™ with more than 750 million or more users worldwide, the presentinvention provides an online community that taps into the power ofsocial networking by integrating “live social feeds” from these socialnetworking giants directly into its website. By creating a highlyengaged social networking community on Social Earth, Facebook™ andTwitter™ and encouraging users and members to share the latestpromotion, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services,entertainment shopping, penny auction or online auctions, advertisementand affiliate advertising or services with their friends on SocialEarth, Facebook™ or Twitter™, the present invention creates“stickiness,” keeping the Social Shoppers on the site for long periodsof time, as well as bringing them back again and again.

The present invention provides long-time customer loyalty, not just aone-off deal. The present invention also provides that a portion of each“Social Earth Coupon” that is sold on the platform will be allocated tomicroloans or microcredit, humanitarian aid or other worldly cause orsustainable gifts. In addition, users will be able to make charitabledonations through the Shopping Cart and purchase online coupons,Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auction oronline auction, advertisements and affiliated advertising or servicesthat support humanitarian aid or sustainable gifts to help those in needaround the world. The community aspect of the present invention is thedriver behind building awareness of the website and its featuredpromotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services,entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising or services. Existing andpotential customers provide advertising by spreading the word to theirfriends about the great promotions, online coupons, mobile services,Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions oronline auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising or servicesthey've found on a shopping site of the present invention. Add to thatthe power of collective buying with the power of social networking andit's easy to see how the community provided by the present invention canleverage group size in exchange for larger discounts. The presentinvention delivers Social Earth promotions, online coupons, mobileservices, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, pennyauctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising orservices from merchants and sellers from around the world to its SocialShoppers via its unique live view of the Earth on a geospatial platformthat includes links to places and events, data on the landscape,interactive 360 panoramas, and fly-through shopping tours with stunning3D imagery. The use of geospatial mapping for associating information tospecific places can included, but it not limited to, one or more of:Live links to places and events; Data on the landscape; Zoom tobirds-eye and human scale views; 3D custom audio/visual content;Interactive 360 panoramas; Fly-through tours with content, narration,music; Stunning imagery and videos; 3D buildings and landscaping,e-commerce and mobile banking tools and hooks; Advertising on thelandscape; Advanced search for private and public information; Socialnetworking integration, social plugins, social applications;Self-posting for uploading user generated content; Custom tools, social& mobile apps and widgets; and the like. The present invention furtherprovides mobile device access from any device to provide Social Earthpromotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services,entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising or services from merchants andsellers from around the world to Social Shoppers based upon theirprecise location and GPS technology. This provides the ability to createan infrastructure and global platform that provides users and membersand businesses of all types and sizes with access to broad markets andconnect buyers and sellers and to reach people at the point ofshopping—a benefit both to shoppers and merchants.

Social Layers. Social Shoppers using or part of the present inventionvirtually travel just about any where in the world in search of shoppingproducts or services, as well as bargains. The present inventionstechnology drives content, promotions, online coupons, mobile services,Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions oronline auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising or servicesinto a “virtual Earth” based upon its precise location and GPStechnology. Users will be able to enjoy the shopping scene on the planetEarth and view Social Earth promotions, online coupons, mobile services,Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping penny auctions oronline auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising or servicesfrom merchants and sellers from around the world by geo-target locationusing GPS technologies. This website of the invention aggregates SocialEarth promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods &Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising or services from merchants andsellers from around the world (in different languages) and showcase themin their actual, physical location on the virtual Earth. Because thevirtual Earth is “interactive,” one can zoom in for a more detailed viewor zoom out to gain perspective on where they are in the world. SocialEarth promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods &Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising or services can last for days,weeks or even months. What makes the present inventions websitedifferent from other group buying websites is that websites of thepresent invention allow Social Shoppers to search for promotions, onlinecoupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services, entertainmentshopping, penny auctions or online auctions, as well as advertisementsand affiliate advertising or services from merchants and sellers fromaround the world on a virtual Earth. Users will be able to customizetheir buying preferences, engage in social networking activities,support worthwhile causes and much more. Websites of the presentinvention can allow Social Shoppers to select from a menu of couponsbased upon their online activities, location, online communications,search inquiries, social networking, social plugins, promotions, socialapplications, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising or services, purchasing,behavior, buying patterns and other criteria, which is integrated intothe virtual Earth along with other layer location-relevant data asSocial Shoppers shop online and interact with their friends in otherpopular social networks. Advertisers and merchants will be able totarget Social Shoppers based on geo-target location.

The present invention provides layer applications, which are known as“social layers.” These social layers allow Social Shoppers to customizetheir personal experience on SOCIAL EARTH as they search for SocialEarth promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods &Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising or services from merchants andsellers in their local area or just about anywhere else in the worldbased upon their precise location, GPS, buying preferences, interests ortravels take them. Social Shoppers select from a menu of “Purchase”coupon categories such as. (Arts & Entertainment, Travel, Giving Back,Eat & Drink, Deal of the Day) and “Free” coupon categories such as:(Health & Beauty, Sports, Shopping, Groceries). The present inventionprovides methods and systems that drive traffic to its website bytargeting Social Earth Products, Goods & Services and connecting buyersand sellers from around the world on a global platform, based upon auser's preference, which are displayed on a unique “live view” of planetEarth. Once a Social Shopper selects one or more coupon categories,advertisements for Social Earth promotions, online coupons, mobileservices, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, pennyauctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising orservices from merchants and sellers from around the world will populatethe virtual Earth. Social Shoppers are able to double click on SocialEarth promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods &Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising or services and virtually flydirectly to its location on Earth. Social Shoppers can also click on oneof the featured cities and take a tour of London, San Francisco orDenver and zoom down to street level to take a closer look. SocialShoppers enjoy the experience of virtually traveling around the world,zooming in and out to street level in search for great promotions,online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services,entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising or services and sharing themwith their friends on Social Earth or in these popular social networks.

In connection with a one-of-a-kind geospatial website aggregates SocialEarth promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods &Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising or services from merchants andsellers from around the world and showcases them in their actual,physical location on the websites unique live view of Earth. As SocialShoppers shop the world for bargains, they can view Social Earthpromotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services,entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising or services from merchants andsellers of major brands for such items as family fun, sports,restaurants, events and hundreds of top consumer packaged goods brandsfor groceries, apparel, beverages, books & magazines, foods, healthcare, household, office, personal care, pet care, photography and otherembodiments.

Social Shoppers can find great promotions, online coupons, mobileservices, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, pennyauctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising orservices from merchants and sellers from the leading travel &hospitality industry, restaurants, toy and entertainment companies andtop retailers around the world. Social Shoppers can use “a mobile devicepayment method and system for effectuating an online payment through acomputer or a mobile device equipped carrier or a mobile device equippedbank using a mobile users device in connection with an e-commerce andmobile banking transactions on the host geospatial website or mobiledevice (e.g., mobile telephone, PDA, laptop computer, etc.); whereinusers and members create and maintain a rich-media application via ageospatial mapping platform via the Internet comprising: mobile bankingand electronic payments. The delivery system for a host geospatialwebsite (access via a mobile device or computer) will provide for amultidimensional representation of information and scalable version ofweb content for the delivery of Social Earth promotions, online coupons,mobile services, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping,penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliateadvertising or services from merchants and sellers from around the worldon a three dimensional geospatial platform using geospatial mappingtechnology.

A host geospatial website will include realistic virtual landscape usingsatellite and aerial photography that will include many content layersof web based information, e-commerce and mobile banking links, socialnetworking, social networking communities, social networking activities,social plugins, promotions, social applications, online dating,entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions andadvertisements and affiliate advertising or services from merchants andsellers from around the world for a richer user experience. A hostgeospatial website shall store images, web-based content, social dataand share “live social feeds” from social networking giants Facebook™and Twitter™ and other communications in real-time, which can alsoinclude tracking and predicting of online communications via a mobiledevice or computer with respect to third party applications and outsidesocial networks such as e.g. Facebook™, Twitter™, Skype™ and othersocial networks around the world. Connecting Social Earth products,goods or services from merchants around the world with users and membersknown as “Social Shoppers” in real-time on a geographical area acrossmultiple social layers that are displayed as graphic animated coloroverlays on a three dimensional geospatial platform using geospatialmapping technology. More specifically, it relates to a method for usersand members known as “Social Shoppers” to effectuate banking andelectronic payments; accessing a user account, engaging in mobile socialactivities and viewing available options via a three dimensionalgeospatial mapping platform using geospatial mapping technology.”

Giving Back: Social Shoppers will be able to help those who have beenimpacted by a natural disaster, live in impoverished conditions or areless fortunate in the world. Social Earth plans to provide microloans ormicrocredit, humanitarian aid and support other worldly causes indeveloping countries and charities in their communities and local andglobal causes around our planet and other relief efforts for natural andman made disasters including devastating earthquakes and/or tsunamis.For example, fly to Japan and view a video on the Japan relief effort.By tapping into the power of social networking and bringing together acollective consciousness with millions of Social Shoppers, Social Earthplans to raise awareness for global issues and millions of dollars formicroloans or microcredit, humanitarian aid and support other worldlycauses.

Products, Goods & Services: Non-limiting examples of Products, Goods &Services provided by the present invention, can include, but are notlimited to: A powerful search engine; Online promotions, online coupons,mobile services, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping,penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliateadvertising or services, including without limitation, for such items ase-commerce, media and entertainment, sports, personal & financialnetwork, travel & hospitality services, real estate, educationalservices, ancillary services, service providers, social networking,social networking communities, online dating, gaming, retail stores,virtual communities and virtual goods and information about microloansor microcredit, humanitarian aid and support other worldly causesthrough charitable donations or sustainable gifts (collectively“Products, Goods & Services” as any product or service or subgroupthereof) with geospatial mapping. Free real estate information on markettrends, free mortgage quotes auto loans, insurance and home equityloans; Low mortgage rates to refinance your home. Compare lender quotesfrom competing providers; Providing a database with thousands of realestate properties from around the world; Providing a database withthousands of advertisers, service providers and business owners fromaround the world; Comparing auto quotes from competing providers andrefinance your car loan; Providing advertising opportunities for serviceproviders who want to reach millions of users online; Providing socialnetworking, social networking communities, social networking activities,social plugins, promotions, social applications, online communications,social plugins and user profiles, messaging, viewing public & privateuser profiles; Providing RSS links with news feeds (e.g., from CNN orMSN) for breaking news, real-time weather, sports and media andentertainment news and financial markets from around the world; and/orproviding the ability to purchase Products, Goods & Services fromthousands of advertisers, merchants, service providers and onlinebusinesses from around the world.

Virtual Advertisements: Non-limiting examples of virtual advertisementsservices provided by the present invention, can include, but are notlimited to the following: Providing virtual online advertisements,digital billboards and other products, goods or services that connectsmillions of users and members from around the world on a threedimensional geospatial platform using geospatial mapping technology.

Virtual Penny Auction or Online Auction Market: Non-limiting examples ofvirtual auctions services provided by the present invention, caninclude, but are not limited to the following. Providing aninfrastructure and global platform that provides users and businesses ofall types and sizes with access to broad markets of penny auctions oronline auctions promoting the sale of products, goods & services withmillions of users and members from around the world on a threedimensional geospatial platform using geospatial mapping technology.

Virtual E-commerce Market: Non-limiting examples of e-commerce servicesprovided by the present invention, can include, but are not limited tothe following. Providing an infrastructure and global platform thatprovides users and members and businesses of all types and sizes withaccess to broad markets of e-commerce and other products, goods orservices that connects millions of users and members from around theworld on a three dimensional geospatial platform using geospatialmapping technology.

Virtual Media and Entertainment Market: Non-limiting examples of virtualmedia and entertainment services provided by the present invention, caninclude, but are not limited to the following. Providing an immersive,interactive virtual reality to media and entertainment and otherproducts, goods or services that connects millions of users and membersvia the Internet with thousands of videos, games, virtual realitytelevision and other amusement applications that connects millions ofusers and members from around the world on a three dimensionalgeospatial platform using geospatial mapping technology.

Virtual Sports Market: Non-limiting examples of virtual sports servicesprovided by the present invention, can include, but are not limited tothe following. Providing an immersive, interactive virtual reality tosports, media and entertainment, sporting events, players, scores andupdates, sports around the world, RSS links, videos and other productsor services that connects millions of users and members via the Internetwith thousands of videos, games, virtual sports and other amusementapplications that connects millions of users and members from around theworld on a three dimensional geospatial platform using geospatialmapping technology.

Virtual Personal & Financial Network Market: Non-limiting examples ofvirtual personal & financial network services provided by the presentinvention, can include, but are not limited to the following: Providingan infrastructure and global platform that provides users and membersand businesses of all types and sizes with access to broad markets ofvirtual personal & financial network of service providers, products orservices that connects millions of users and members from around theworld on a three dimensional geospatial platform using geospatialmapping technology.

Virtual Travel & Hospitality Market: Non-limiting examples of virtualtravel & hospitality services provided by the present invention, caninclude, but are not limited to the following: Providing travel &hospitality services and other products, goods or services with apowerful network of thousand of travel & hospitality service providerse.g. travel agents, hotels, motels, resorts, airlines, entertainment,transportation, and other related products, goods & services, etc. andother professionals that connects millions of users and members fromaround the world on a three dimensional geospatial platform usinggeospatial mapping technology.

Virtual Real Estate Market: Non-limiting examples of virtual real estateservices provided by the present invention, can include, but are notlimited to the following: Providing information about various types ofreal estate, ancillary services and other products, goods or serviceswith a powerful network of thousands of real estate professionals,ancillary services and other affiliates that connects millions of usersand members from around the world on a three dimensional geospatialplatform using geospatial mapping technology.

Virtual Service Providers: Non-limiting examples of service providersprovided by the present invention, can include, but are not limited to:allowing service providers and business owners' to reach users andmembers and consumers online, offering advertising opportunities forservice providers, business owners and affiliates for business services,healthcare services, specialty financial services, consumer products,specialty retail and media and entertainment, lenders, mortgagecompanies and the like; providing advertisements that can appear onconsumers' property search results and connecting thousands of serviceproviders and business owners for business services, healthcareservices, specialty financial services, consumer products, specialtyretail and media and entertainment, lenders, mortgage companies lendersand mortgage companies to provide financing quotes to millions of usersand members and consumers online; providing real estate marketinformation and mortgage quotes for, e.g., purchase of a new home,refinance, consolidating debt, auto loans, insurance quotes or homeequity loans and other products, goods & services, advertisers, serviceproviders and business owners from around the world on a threedimensional geospatial platform using geospatial mapping technology.

Virtual Social Networking Market: Non-limiting examples of virtualsocial networking services provided by the present invention, caninclude, but are not limited to the following: Providing a socialnetworking platform with social networking and social networkingcommunities and a means for users and members to interact i.e. userprofile, social links, share interests and/or activities, socialplugins, promotions, social applications, messaging, onlinecommunications, viewing public & private user profiles, blogs, chatrooms, other entertainment, events and interests, emailing and instantmessaging, games, groups, etc. for members and other products, goods orservices that connects millions of users and members from around theworld on a three dimensional geospatial platform using geospatialmapping technology.

Virtual Online Dating Market: Non-limiting examples of virtual onlinedating provided by the present invention, can include, but are notlimited to the following: Providing an online community for dating,gathering and other types of services for users and members to interacti.e. user profiles, viewing public & private user profiles, onlinecommunications, messaging, social links, social plugins, socialapplications, blogs, chat rooms, sharing interests and/or activities,entertainment, events and interests, emailing and instant messaging,games, groups, etc. and other products, goods or services that connectsmillions of users and members from around the world on a threedimensional geospatial platform using geospatial mapping technology.

Virtual Social Gaming Market: Non-limiting examples of social gamingservices provided by the present invention, can include, but are notlimited to, gaming and social sites, add-ons for online games, digitalgifts and other items, online virtual communities and similar or relatedforms of entertainment, virtual real estate, social networks, searchingonline for different types of real estate and other products, goods &services, educational services, ancillary services that connectsmillions of users and members from around the world on a threedimensional geospatial platform using geospatial mapping technology.

Virtual Retail Stores Market: Non-limiting examples of virtual retailstores services provided by the present invention, can include, but arenot limited to, virtual retail stores. Proving users and members andbusiness owners with an online retail store and ability to create acentral shopping location where buyers can learn about you and all theproducts that you sell. Providing online retail stores for members andbusiness owners and other products, goods & services, advertisers,service providers and business owners that connects millions of usersand members from around the world on a three dimensional geospatialplatform using geospatial mapping technology.

Virtual Communities Market: Non-limiting examples of virtual communitiesservices by the present invention, can include, but are not limited to,virtual worlds. Virtual worlds are online communities in whichindividuals are able to interact with each other in real time, and caninclude v-businesses, which is virtual commerce of goods and servicesfor use in these virtual worlds. Virtual communities have thousands andmillions of members, namely people who join the virtual communities toexchange information, gain social support, or to seek entertainment andfriendship. Providing users and members and business owners with anonline virtual community and other products, goods & services,advertisers, service providers and business owners that connectsmillions of users and members and members from around the world on athree dimensional geospatial platform using geospatial mappingtechnology.

Virtual Goods Market: Non-limiting examples of products, goods &services provided by the present invention, can include, but are notlimited to, virtual goods, which can relate to virtual worlds andmultiplayer online role playing games (MMO or MMORPG), e.g., likeEntropia and Second Life, for members and other products, services,service providers and businesses that connects millions of users andmembers via the Internet with thousands and millions of members fromaround the world on a three dimensional geospatial platform usinggeospatial mapping technology.

Microloans or Microcredit Market: Non-limiting examples of microloan ormicrocredit services provided by the present invention, can include, butare not limited to, information about microloans or microcredit, whichis an extension of very small loans to those in poverty designed to spurentrepreneurship. Providing information about microloans or microcreditto men and women that lack collateral, steady employment and verifiablecredit history and in impoverished conditions around the world and otherproducts, goods & services, advertisers, service providers and businessowners that connects millions of users and members with organizationsthat support disadvantaged men and women from around the world on athree dimensional geospatial platform using geospatial mappingtechnology.

Humanitarian Aid Market: Non-limiting examples of humanitarian aidservices provided by the present invention, can include, but are notlimited to, humanitarian aid for poverty, natural disasters and man-madedisasters. The primary objective of humanitarian aid is to save lives,provide food, clean water and shelter to alleviate suffering andmaintain human dignity. Providing humanitarian aid to those inimpoverished conditions and suffering from around the world from naturaldisasters and man made disasters and including animals, animal rightsand protecting endangered species and wildlife from extinction and thatconnects millions of users and members and members with organizationsthat support underprivileged men, women and children and includinganimals, animal rights and protecting endangered species and wildlifefrom extinction from around the world from poverty, natural disastersand man made disasters on a three dimensional geospatial platform usinggeospatial mapping technology.

Charitable Donations or Sustainable Gifts Market: Non-limiting examplesof charitable donations or sustainable gifts services provided by thepresent invention, can include, but are not limited to, charitabledonations or sustainable gifts to benefit those in need from around theworld for such categories as: hunger & poverty, education & play,immunization, water, nutrition, health & emergency. In addition, SocialEarth supports saving the rain forest, lives and finding cures forinfectious diseases, etc. A donation or sustainable gift may takevarious forms, including cash or a Social Earth Coupon, can include, butare not limited to, a goat, sheep, chicken, water buffalo, cow, stove,carpentry tools, class supplies, health clinic, food, clothing, water,medical or other supplies, services, new or used goods includingclothing, toys, food and vehicles. It may also consist of emergency,relief or humanitarian aid items, development aid support and medicalcare needs as i.e. blood or organs for transplant. Providing charitabledonations or sustainable gifts to those in need in impoverishedconditions for such items as food, clothing, education, health orbenefit a cause around the world and other products, services, serviceproviders and business owners that connects millions of users andmembers and members with thousands of local communities, charitableorganizations and foundations from around the world on a threedimensional geospatial platform using geospatial mapping technology.

The present invention further provides the use of various marketing andcustomer generation methods, including, but not limited to, social mediaplatforms to generate traffic to the websites and access points for thepresent invention, e.g., but not limited to, a SOCIAL EARTH website, inorder to provide a large subscriber base of Social Shoppers; which caninclude, but is not limited to, one or more of the following: VirtualPenny Auctions or Online Auctions—Social Shoppers can view, bid andpurchase items from penny auctions or online auction from around theworld on Social Earth. Virtual Coupons—Social Shoppers can view SocialEarth promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods &Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising or services by geo-targetlocation; Video Coupons—Social Earth “video” promotions, online coupons,Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions oronline auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising or servicesfrom merchants and sellers from around the world that are displayed onone or more pages, links, on the website; Email Marketing—featuredSocial Earth promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products,Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or onlineauctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising or services will beemailed to users and contain a brief headline deal(s) with a fulldescription of upcoming events; Website—Visitors are prompted toregister as a Social Shopper when they first visit website andthereafter use the website as a portal for featured Social Earthpromotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services,entertainment services, penny auctions, or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising or services from merchants andsellers from their local area or just about any where in the world;Mobile Applications—Consumers can access Social Earth promotions, onlinecoupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services, entertainmentshopping, penny auction or online auctions, advertisements and affiliateadvertising or services via a smartphone or similar device, which iscompatible with Google Earth™ and similar geospatial mappingtechnologies, and smart phones; Google Ad Words™—Google Ad Words™ orsimilar advertising is provided to maximize search results for SocialEarth Coupons; Pay Per Ad—the invention can provide a PPC Ad link onother “high traffic” websites to drive traffic to websites of theinvention; In-stream Advertising—In-stream advertising is also providesto use social media platforms such as “live social feeds” from Facebook™and Twitter™ to spread the word about Social Earth Coupons; UserGenerated Traffic the invention can provide rewards to Social Shoppersfor sharing and spreading the word about products, goods & services thatare offered. e.g., if a certain number of people sign up for SocialEarth Coupon, then the deal becomes available to all included; ShareCoupons with Friends—the present invention provides this way to make iteasy for users and members to share “Social Earth Coupons with friendson social networking and similar sites, e.g., but not limited to,Twitter™, Facebook™, StumbleUpon™, Delicious™, Friendfeed™, or Digg™;Refer A Friend—the invention can provide a Referral Widget and encourageSocial Shoppers to refer their friends and receive $10 worth of loyaltycredits; Loyalty Card Program—the invention can provide Loyalty CardPrograms that reward Social Shoppers each time they purchase a SocialEarth Coupon; Social Network Feeds—the invention provides where SocialShoppers can suggest a business to others in the Social Shoppercommunity, track their friends and share “live social feeds” fromFacebook™ and Twitter™;

SOCIAL EARTH For Your Business—the present invention can provides forhelp for businesses to reach new customers with the inventions “liveview” Earth business platform, where are provided businesses featured ina sponsor ads, such as, but not limited to, Premium Sponsor Ads; GiftCards—Social Shoppers and businesses can purchase Gift Cards forfriends, family and customers; Foursquare™—the invention can providepromotions via Foursquare so consumers can act and immediately share theinformation with their friends; Open Source Technologies—the inventionprovides that Social Shoppers can connect with millions of SocialShoppers in popular social networks such as Facebook™ and Twitter™ usingopen source technologies; Data Mining—the invention provides forgathering social data for online, mobile advertisers and social brandsthat are interested in a target market of a particular segment basedupon their precise location or other criteria; Image Sharing Sites—theinvention provides for Social Shoppers to upload images on image sharingsites such as Flickr™ and Picasaweb™; Social Bookmarking: the inventionprovides for the use of social bookmarking with sites like Digg™,Delicious™, StumbleUpon™, etc.; Search Engine Optimization—Key words canbe used in the present invention to optimize visibility to top searchengines such as: Google™, Yahoo™, Bing™, Ask™ and AOL Search™. Othersearch engines such as: Collecta™, Topsy™, 48ers™, Leapfish™, Scoopler™and Sency™ are powerful tools that will show live streams of microblogupdates from Twitter™, Jaiku™ and Identica™, photos from Flickr™,TwitPic™ and yFrog™ and videos from YouTube™ and Ustream™; YouTube™: thepresent invention can provide periodic YouTube videos outlining how touse and maximize user purchasing power using the present invention,e.g., SOCIAL EARTH, as well as soliciting and providing videotestimonials from Social Shoppers on an ongoing basis, e.g.,incentivizing “four star” videos with a special “Best Expert User” badgeto be featured on their profile page; Video Viral Marketing can also beused in the present invention; as well as Blogging, and using articleservers (such as ezinearticles.com, goarticles.com, selfgrowth.com,isnare.com); Twitter™ Marketing, including, e.g., but not limited to,discounts or other special promotions, online coupons, mobile services,Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions oronline auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising or serviceswith their friends on Social Earth and Twitter™; Affiliates—theinvention can further provide API widgets or geo-targeted social linksthat can be downloaded by affiliates. Social Shoppers can get paid Xpercent (X %) of sales of Social Earth Coupons on their websites;Independent Coupon Distributors—the invention can provide network(s) ofindependent coupon distributors that own Valupak™ or other franchises(and other direct mail coupon companies) to include “Social EarthCoupons” that can be distributed to local businesses.

Referring now to the drawings wherein like reference numerals are usedto identify identical components in the various views, FIG. 1 shows anexample of a combined Products, Goods or Services with /GeospatialMapping/Company-Local Information/Social Networking/Communities(“PGS-GM-CL/I-SN”) system 10 in accordance with an exemplary embodimentcombined online Product or Service in combination with geospatialmapping/company/Local Information/and/or social networking distributionsystem 10 includes a main server system 12 and a client system 14 thatis remote from main server system 12, connected together by adistributed computer network, such as the Internet 16 (network, ormobile device access system). A user desiring to obtain one and/or moreof online Products, Goods or Services in combination with geospatialmapping/company/Local Information/and/or social networking uses clientsystem 14 to interact with main server system 12 to obtain onlineProducts, Goods or Services. An electronic coupon can be but is notlimited to any advertisement that is electronic (e.g., electronicadvertisement on website, electronic advertisement sent to clientdevice, a hyper link based on a search result from a search engineand/or any other push/pull techniques).

Main server system 12 is configured to be connected to, and/or otherwisereceive, promotions, online coupons, social activity, location, Product,Good and/or services information from the issuer of such coupons (i.e.,the coupons sponsor) and/or as provided by the website and/or otherelectronically provided information, e.g., by PDA, cell phone, portableelectronic tablet, etc., including mobile banking or e-commerce system.Although not shown, this function can be performed by a directelectronic connection with a sponsor system, and/or can involve loadingdata from a physically transportable data storage medium (e.g.,diskette, tape, CD-ROM, USB drive, etc.). The coupon sponsor may, and inmost cases will, issue in connection with the coupon an associated setof instructions that define how the coupon is to be distributed. Forexample, such instructions can include restrictions as to the number ofcoupons that any one user can print out for redemption, the state and/orzip code associated with a user for such user to have access to thecoupon, the expiration date, the item and discount amount, etc. Mainserver system 12 is further configured to be connected to, and/orotherwise receive, advertising information from an advertising sponsor,or purchasing system, e.g., Amazon, or company purchase website ormobile application, or through mobile banking system. Although notshown, this function can be performed by direct electronic connectionwith the ad sponsors system, and/or can involve loading data from aphysically transportable data storage medium (i.e., diskette, tape,CD-ROM, etc.). The advertising impressions are displayed on clientsystem 14, as described in greater detail below.

Main server system 12 can include a website server 18, a front-endserver 20, a handler 22, a database server 24, and an FTP server 26.Website server 18 is configured to provide “web pages”, mobile app,e-commerce or electronic or mobile banking, to consumers (includingpossible users and members of electronic coupon distribution system 10)with Internet access. Internet 16, more particularly, the World Wide Webportion thereof, “WWW”, is an interconnected computer network that isgenerally distributed throughout the world on discrete interconnectedcomputer nodes having software interfaces generally referred to as “webpages,” which further includes geospatial mapping, social networking,company and local information, and/or any other useful data. Access toInternet 16 can be made by various methods; typically, however, anon-institutional user obtains access from one of a plurality ofInternet Service Providers (ISPs), which in turn obtain authorizedaccess to Internet 16. Navigation on the WWW portion of Internet 16involves knowledge of a directory structure of various nodes of theInternet (i.e., an “address” to each given resource on Internet 16).Such an address is generally referred to as a Uniform Resource Locator(URL), which typically starts with a protocol name followed by a domainname, for example: http://www.valuepass.com. Website server 18 isconfigured to provide, among other things, an interface for effecting adownload of client software that a consumer can download and execute toestablish a client system 14 on his and/or her computer system. In thisway the consumer can become an authorized user (“user”) of electroniccoupon distribution system 10. In particular, website server 18 canrefer an Internet consumer to FTP server 26 for the client installationfile.

Front-end server 20 provides multiple interface and allocation/directionfeatures for electronic coupon distribution system 10. Front-end server20 is the entity that is initially contacted by client system 14 at thestart of each new session of combined Products, Goods or Services with/Geospatial Mapping/Company-Local Information/SocialNetworking/Communities (“PGS-GM-CL/I-SN”) distribution system 10, and/orwhen automatic coupon updates occur. Handler 22 is configured tointerface with database server 24. After a new session is established bya user, all subsequent requests by client system 14 can be directed toand are “handled” by handler 22. As a result, handler 22 can thereafterissue a request and/or a command to database server 24, and/or directlyrespond to client system (if configured to do so). Database server 24can comprise a plurality of physical, individual general purpose digitalcomputers configured as database servers, which can be furtherconfigured in a cluster arrangement. Database server 24, in oneembodiment, can be configured to operate using SQL server software, suchas, but not limited to, Microsoft SQL Server Version 7, commerciallyavailable from, for example, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Wash.,U.S.A.

FTP server 26 can be configured to operate in cooperation with websiteserver 18 to provide, for example, installation and/or setup programs.The installation program(s) are downloaded to a general-purpose computer(e.g., PC and/or a MAC) for installation of the client software inaccordance with the present disclosure.

Client system 14 includes client application software 28, DeviceID data30 (ID) data 30, user preference data 32, user history data 34,PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information data 36, and advertising data 38. Inaddition, client system 14 can comprise a general purpose computingapparatus configured to operate in accordance with an operating systemhaving a graphical user interface, such as, for example, Windows95/98/NT 4.0/2000/Vista/7, and Apple Computer, Inc. MAC OS OperatingSystem for Macintosh platforms. Client system 14 can further includestandard peripherals such as a display device 40, a keyboard 42, apointing device, such as a mouse 44, and an output device, such as aprinter 46, for producing a “hard copy” of PGS-GM-CL/I-SN 48. DeviceIDdata 30 can be stored on main server system 12, according to anexemplary embodiment. In exemplary embodiments, one, a few, a pluralityand/or all DeviceID data 30 can be stored on main server system 12.

Client application software 28 comprises software compatible with andexecuting on client system 14 configured to implement the presentdisclosure as described herein. Client application software 28 performsvarious functions including, but not limited to, collecting userinformation, including preferences, communicating with main serversystem 12 via Internet 16, and providing an interface for the user forbrowsing through, and selecting, PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information forprintout. DeviceID data 30 can comprise a multi-digit number that isassigned by main server system 12, more particularly, database server24, when a user registers with PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information distributionsystem 10. DeviceID data 30 can have a format, such as XXXXXXXX, where Xis a digit between 0-9. DeviceID data 30, however, does not specificallyidentify the user personally, but rather, more accurately associates aphysical machine defining client system 14 with user profile informationobtained during registration. DeviceID data 30 is stored on clientsystem 14, main server system 12, and/or both as a part of a User Infoobject. If the DeviceID data 30 is stored on client system 14, thenDeviceID data 30 is provided to main server system 12 when makingrequests, for example, for new PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information data. If aclient system 14 operates multiple independent operating systems (e.g.,a Mac operating system (a product of Apple Computer, Inc.) and a Windowsoperating system (a product of Microsoft Corp.)), then there can be aseparate DeviceID data 30 for each operating system assigned to thatclient system 14. Main server system 12 can correlate the providedDeviceID data 30 with user information stored in a profile database. Theuser information can then be used in identifying PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation suitable for the user. In this embodiment, however, the useris not personally identified nor is it even possible (e.g., through the“hacking” of main server system 12) to identify the user personally, assuch information is not even collected from the user. Accordingly, theapproach described herein maintains privacy of the user ofPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information distribution system 10.

The User Info object further includes user information collected fromthe user of client system 14 indicative of one and/or more demographiccharacteristics of the user. In this embodiment, the user information isinsufficient to specifically identify the user. In a constructedembodiment, such information comprises a postal zip code associated withthe user, and a state in which the user resides. Client applicationsoftware 28 allows the user to update this information after initialregistration. In addition, the User Info object includes the mode inwhich the Internet is accessed, for example, through use of a modem(e.g., dial-up), through use of a Local Area Network (LAN), and/or useof a proxy server. The User Info object can further include the versionnumber of the client application software 28. User preference data 32comprises two main groups. The first group of information contained inuser preference data 32 includes information defining how often the mainserver system 12 is checked for new PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information. In aconstructed embodiment, the options include one hour, two hours, fourhours (the default), twice a day, and once a day. The first group ofinformation contained in user preference data 32 can also include amiscellaneous item of information indicating whether the user prefersthat certain PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information be automatically printed (thiscan be selected and/or deselected by the user). The second main group ofinformation included in user preference data 32 includes a comprehensivelisting of main categories of PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information selected by theuser that the user wishes to receive. While the particular mainPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information category descriptions can be changed on mainserver system 12 and downloaded to client system 14 at any time,exemplary categories include “Apparel”, “Athletics”, “Automotive”, and“Internet Electronics”, among others. A user can deselect a category, inwhich case PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information pertaining to that category willnot be sent from main server system 12 to client system 14.

User history data 34 comprises data corresponding to events occurring atthe remote client system 14, as well as other items pertaining to theoperation of client system 14. All these items are stored in a userhistory file. For example, when a user is browsing through availablePGS-GM-CL/I-SN information each PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information that isselected for viewing is noted in the user history file. Likewise, whenPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information is selected for printing, that action is alsorecorded in the user history file. Other examples include whenPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information is actually printed, and when an advertisingimpression (described in further detail below) is displayed on displaydevice 40. The information contained in the user history data 34 isencrypted by client application software 28 in accordance with a clientsystem encryption strategy to protect the integrity of the datacontained therein. The contents of the user history data 34 aredescribed and illustrated in greater detail in connection with FIG. 17.

PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information data 36 includes information corresponding tothe PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information available (e.g., for browsing) on clientsystem 14. Each PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information, such as PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation 48, includes a plurality of items of information associatedtherewith.

Therefore, an exemplary, non-limiting, structure is defined for eachPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information having the items of information set forth inTable 1 below.

TABLE 1 PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information Data Structure 1. PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation Sponsor Name 2. Product and/or Service Description 3.Savings and/or Discount Amount 4. The Number of PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation Available for Printout 5. The Number of PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation Printed Out Thus Far 6. Expiration Date 7. OptionalText/Image(s) 8. PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information Identification Number

In addition, when PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information 48 is actually printed out,additional information can be printed out on the “hard copy” of thePGS-GM-CL/I-SN information. These additional items can include theDeviceID data 30, portions of the demographic data such as the postalzip code, one and/or more items of the user information contained inuser preference data 32, the date and time, and optionally variousInternet URLs. Coupon sponsors have found some of the informationappearing on printed PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information 48 desirable. That is,when the user redeems PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information 48, for example, at aretail store, information appearing on PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information 48(which is eventually returned by the retailer to the PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation issuer and/or sponsor) is available to the PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation sponsor. This information can thereafter be used inanalyzing and assessing the efficacy of various advertising/promotionalstrategies. PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information data 36 can be stored on a harddrive and/or the like associated with client system 14, and ispreferably stored in an encrypted form. In particular, and in accordancewith the present disclosure, PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information data 36corresponding to PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information is encrypted by main serversystem 12 in accordance with a server system encryption strategy.

The encrypted PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information data is then transmitted toclient system 14. Client system 14 further encrypts the once-encryptedPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information data in accordance with a client systemencryption strategy to thereby generate doubly encrypted PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation data. The doubly encrypted PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information data36 can then be stored on the client system 14. The foregoing encryptionsteps substantially minimize the occurrence of fraud in the distributionof PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information compared to known systems. A user, forexample, can therefore not easily defeat the PGS-GM-CL/I-SN informationcounting scheme that limits the number of printouts by, for example,exploring the client systems hard drive, identifying PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation data, and thereafter producing printed copies of thePGS-GM-CL/I-SN information. Use of the environment established by clientapplication software 28 is therefore practically the only means for theuser to obtain usable PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information 48. Advertising data 38comprises a plurality of advertising impressions wherein each impressioncan include a predetermined combination of text and images. Advertisingdata 38 is also stored on client system 14 in an encrypted form. Displaydevice 40, keyboard 42, mouse 44, and printer 46 can comprise anapparatus known to those of ordinary skill in the art.

FIG. 2 shows, in greater detail, database server 24 of main serversystem 12. As described above, database server 24 can comprise aplurality of physical database servers arranged in a cluster. Furtherphysical machines can be added to provide for load balancing (i.e.,scalability, and the ability to quickly add additional hardware as loadand responsiveness criteria require). Database server 24 can includePGS-GM-CL/I-SN information database 50, an advertising database 52, amaster category list master category list database 54, a plugin database56, a brand logo database 58, and a user transaction history database60.

PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information database 50 includes PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation data similar to that described in connection withPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information data 36, but is more in the nature of amaster PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information database including the entire universeand/or a larger set of PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information available onPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information distribution system 10. Advertising database52 includes a plurality of ad impressions, which can be a combination oftext and/or images. Again, advertising database 52 is in the nature of amaster advertising database including all of the advertising impressionsincluded in main server system 12.

Master category list database 54 includes the main PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation category names presently established on PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation distribution system 10. In addition, displaycharacteristics, such as the color of a main PGS-GM-CL/I-SN informationcategory button (to be described in connection with FIG. 3A) can also bestored in database 54.

Plugin database 56 includes information as to available plugins for usein connection with client application software 28 of client system 14.Plugin database 56 includes a plurality of plugins. The particularplugins that are selected for use in connection with client applicationsoftware 28 depends on what added functionality has been configured inclient system 14. For example, plugins can be configured to provideZodiac information, recipe information, and stock quote information tothe user. Additionally, a plugin can be configured to provide a newPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information style for the user. In this way, clientsystem 14 can be updated remotely with new functionality.

Brand logo database 58 includes information as to how the user interfaceof client system 14 is “branded.” The default “branding” of the userinterface involves the display of a company logo of the assignee of thepresent disclosure. Also, a corresponding Internet URL for “clickthrough” purposes is associated with the brand image. However, inalternate embodiments, other companies can arrange (e.g., through areferral of potential new users and members of PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation distribution system 10) to have the user interface of clientapplication software 28 “branded” with the referring company's logo (andInternet URL for “click through”).

User transaction history database 60 includes information contained inuser history data 34 uploaded from client system 14. User transactionhistory database 60 therefore contains information corresponding toactions and/or events taken by and/or involving the user of clientsystem 14. User transaction history database 60 therefore includes arecord for each PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information that has been downloadedand/or otherwise provided to client system 14. As each PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation is displayed, and/or printed by the user, for example, thecorresponding record in user transaction history database 60 is updated.

Referring now to FIGS. 3A and 3B, FIG. 3A shows a Graphical UserInterface (GUI) 62 displayed on display device 40 in connection with theexecution of client application software 28. User interface 62 includesa plurality of main PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information category “buttons” 64each having a respective status indicator 66 associated therewith. Userinterface 62 also includes PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information subcategory list68, PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information list 70, an advertising pane 72, a logopane 74, a main PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information display area 76, an“Add-To-Print-Cart” button 78, a “Print Now” button 80, a “More Info”button 82, a “Delete” button 84, a “Preferences” button 86, a“Promotions” button 88, a “Refresh” button 90, a printout status displayarea 92, and a general message display area 94.

Main PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information category buttons 64 allow the user ofclient system 14 to select the general category of PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation that the user is interested in viewing. For example, theuser who is interested in browsing through media and entertainmentPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information, would select the main category button 64designated “Media and Entertainment” using a pointing device such asmouse 44 (e.g., via “clicking” on the button). Status indicator 66associated with each main PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information category button 64indicates whether there are PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information under that maincategory that have not yet been displayed in PGS-GM-CL/I-SN informationdisplay area 76. As shown in FIG. 3A, when a status indicator 66 is“checked” (i.e., active), as indicated generally at 66.sub.A for themain PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information category button labeled “Added Extras”,such indication informs the user that PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information areavailable under that main PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information category that havenot yet been displayed.

Alternatively, when there are no undisplayed PGS-GM-CL/I-SN informationunder a main category, the “checked” status indicator 66 becomesinactive and is removed, as shown by a dashed line box designated66.sub.I where a status indicator would otherwise be displayed had itbeen “active.”

When one of the plurality of main PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information categorybuttons 64 is selected, a corresponding subcategory list is displayed inPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information subcategory list 68. A user can then browsethrough the items contained in PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information subcategorylist 68 and make a selection. When one of the items contained inPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information subcategory list 68 is selected by the user(e.g., via “clicking”), the corresponding individual PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation and/or informational messages are displayed inPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information list 70. The user can then select an itemfrom PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information list 70, which will then be displayed inPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information display area 76. Through the foregoinginterface, users and members of PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information distributionsystem 10 can quickly and easily navigate from broad main PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation categories, to individual PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information, forprintout and later redemption. If the user desires to print out aparticular PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information, the user can select the printcart button 78 to add the selected PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information to a printcart and/or queue for subsequent printout on printer 46. Alternatively,the user can print the selected PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information immediatelyby selecting the “Print Now” button 80.

Advertising pane 72 is configured to display an advertising impression.In one embodiment, the advertising impression is selected from aplurality of advertising impressions as a function of a selectedPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information subcategory. For example, a vendor ofelectronic equipment can arrange to have an ad impression for thatvendors company displayed in advertising pane 72 when the user selects aparticular PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information subcategory from list 68 when the“Internet Electronics” category button 64 is selected. As a furtherfeature, the advertiser can provide an Internet URL (e.g., to its homepage) and have it associated with the ad impression. Client applicationsoftware 28 is configured such that when a user selects (e.g., “clicks”)advertising pane 72, an Internet browser program associated with clientsystem 14 is launched and is directed to the URL as specified by theadvertiser. This is a so-called “click through” occurrence, which isrecorded in the user history file.

Logo pane 74 provides a display area through which the user interface 62of PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information distribution system 10 can be “branded.”As with advertising pane 72, an Internet URL can be associated with thebrand logo displayed in logo pane 74. Client application software 28 isconfigured such that when the user selects (e.g. “clicks”) logo pane 74,an Internet browser program associated with client system 14 is launchedand is directed to the specified URL.

The “Print Now” button 80 is configured under client applicationsoftware 28 such that when selected, the PGS-GM-CL/I-SN informationcurrently being viewed is printed out on printer 46. If there are oneand/or more other PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information currently in the printqueue, as a result of prior selection of the print cart button 78 forpreviously displayed PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information, then selection of the“Print Now” button 80 by the user will operate to print all suchselected PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information 48 on printer 46. The “More Info”button 82 is configured under client application software 28 to launchan Internet browser program associated with client system 14 whenselected, and, further, to direct the browser to a specified URL. Inaccordance with a secure e-couponing embodiment of the presentdisclosure, predetermined ones of the PGS-GM-CL/I-SN informationdisplayed in PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information display area 76 can be redeemedby the user electronically (as opposed to printing out the displayedPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information and physically tendering the same to theretailer). Generally, a portion of the PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information beingdisplayed in PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information display area 76 will tell theuser to click on the “More Info” button 82 to instantly redeem thePGS-GM-CL/I-SN information.

Client application software 28 is configured to invoke, in response tothe “click”, the specified but completely hidden and inaccessible URL(including the appended promotional code) using an Internet browserprogram. Client application software 28 disables access to the invokedURL/code. For example, moving the mouse arrow over the PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation/ad does not cause the URL to be displayed, nor is“right-button clicking” operative to allow capture of the URL.Accordingly, the specified URL (and code) is neither displayed noravailable, and cannot be discovered by, for example, “right-clicking” onPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information display area 76, like a web-basede-PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information distribution systems. The browser takes theuser to the website corresponding the specified URL, where the appendedpromotional code is processed, and the user provided an opportunity toredeem the same. The present disclosure therefore provides securePGS-GM-CL/I-SN information distribution. In another embodiment, thespecified URL that is invoked when the “More Info” button 82 is“clicked” comprises the URL associated with an advertiser's website(i.e., the advertiser associated with an ad impression displayed inadvertising pane 72). The “Delete” button 84 is configured under clientapplication software 28 to delete the currently viewed PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation when selected by the user.

The “Preferences” button 86 is configured under client applicationsoftware 28 to allow the user to set and/or modify the informationcontained in the user preference data 32, when selected by the user. Forexample, the refresh interval referred to above can be updated by theuser to extend and/or foreshorten the PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information updateinterval. The “Promotions” button 88 is configured under clientapplication software 28 to prompt the user to enter a promotion code toobtain a special promotion PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information, when selected bythe user. For example, a third-party website, and/or the like, canadvise the user of a promotional code, with instruction to establishclient system 14 (if they are not already a registered user), and thento enter the promotion code as described above, to obtain thepromotional PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information.

The “Refresh” button 90 is configured under client application software28 to transmit an update request from client system 14 to main serversystem 12, when selected by the user. This action, in-effect, requeststhat any new PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information waiting for the user on mainserver system 12 at that point in time be downloaded to client system14. Additionally, any data in the user history file is uploaded.Printout status display area 92 is provided for displaying messagespertaining to the status of the print cart (e.g., “Items to Print: 2”).Message display area 94 is provided for displaying various messages tothe user of client system 14.

Referring now to FIG. 3B, the graphical user interface associated withthe operating system of client system 14 can include a taskbar 100. Inaccordance with the present disclosure, taskbar icon 102 is provided.Client application software 28 is configured to display taskbar icon 102to the user in a first display state when no new PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation and/or messages are available to the user. Taskbar icon 102in the first display state can assume a static display. In constructedembodiment, taskbar icon 102 includes a generally black-colored “%”symbol on a yellow-colored background, all enclosed by a dashed-linebox.

Client application software 28 is further configured to display taskbaricon 102 in a second display state different from the first displaystate when new PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information and/or messages are availablefor the user. In a constructed embodiment, the second display stateassociated with taskbar icon 102 comprises a quasi-flashing displaystate wherein (i) the color of the “%” symbol is indexed and/or rotatedthrough a plurality of different colors, and (ii) the dashed-lineenclosure box is manipulated to give the sense of movement, particularlyrotation, around the perimeter of taskbar icon 102.

Referring now to FIG. 4, a brief description of the operation ofPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information distribution system 10, particularly the maininteractions between client system 14 and main server system 12, willnow be set forth. Each time a new session is commenced, the basic stepsset forth in FIG. 4 are performed.

In step 104, client system 14, by way of execution of client applicationsoftware 28, is initialized. In step 106, client application software 28determines whether there is an identified user device for client system14, and/or whether the present user is a “new” user device. Clientapplication software 28 can make this determination based on theexistence and/or absence of particular files on client system 14 (e.g.,a file containing a DeviceID data 30) indicative of whether and/or notthis is a “new” user device. If “NO”, then the method branches to step112. Otherwise, if the answer to step 106 is “YES”, then the methodbranches to step 107.

In step 107, client application software 28 obtains user informationfrom the user. In particular, client application software 28 isconfigured to collect user information from a user of client system 14indicative of one and/or more demographic characteristics of the userwithout obtaining information sufficient to specifically identify theuser. In a constructed embodiment, the information obtained comprises apostal zip code associated with the user, and a State where the userresides. Personal information such as the users and members name, e-mailaddress, residence address, social security number, telephone number,and the like is not obtained in step 107. In accordance with the presentdisclosure, the foregoing step provides useful information to mainserver system 12 in the selection of PGS-GM-CL/I-SN informationappropriate for the user (e.g., geographic area). PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation from merchants located geographically proximate the usersand members residence can be more easily redeemed by the user, thusincreasing the efficacy of the PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information offer. Otherinformation, such as the type of Internet connection (e.g., modem), canalso be obtained from the user in step 107.

In step 108, main server system 12 registers the “new” user device. Mainserver system 12 determines whether the user of remote client system 14is a “new” user device based on the presence and/or absence of DeviceIDdata 30 in a message from client system 14 to main server system 12. The“new” user device is then registered on main server system 12. Mainserver system 12 is configured to register the new user by performing,among other things, the steps of allocating a new DeviceID data 30, andassociating the new DeviceID data 30 with the user information obtainedin step 107. Through the foregoing, remote client system 14 can alwaysbe identified by its DeviceID data 30.

In step 109, client system 14 and main server system 12 communicate soas to update the master category list, plugins, brand logo information,advertising data and PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information data at the remoteclient system 14. This is done, for the first time client applicationsoftware 28 is executed, by searching the main server system 12 for newinformation that has come into being between the time the installationand/or setup program that the user used to install client system 14 waspopulated with such data (the “sync” date), and the present time (theserver date). The identified information is downloaded to thereby updateclient system 14. This step ensures that the user of client system 14has the most up-to-date information in these categories. The method thenproceeds to step 110 wherein main client application software 28 isexecuted.

When the answer to step 106 is “NO”, then the method branches to step112. In step 112, client application determines whether client system 14is “online.” Client system 14 is “online” when the user is connected tothe Internet such that client system 14 can communicate with main serversystem 12. While this basic step are described in greater detail below(FIG. 9), it bears emphasizing that client system 14, in an exemplaryembodiment, will not force a connection to Internet 16. Rather, if thereis no “online” connection, the user of client system 14 will have accessto PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information in an “offline” mode of operation. Thus,if the answer to step 112 is “NO”, then the method branches to step 110.Otherwise, when the answer step 112 is “YES”, then the method branchesto step 114. In step 114, main server system 12 identifies the remoteclient system 14 based on a DeviceID data 30 provided by client system14. In this way, main server system 12 can utilize the information “onfile”, such as state and zip code, for a variety of purposes. In aconstructed embodiment, the state and zip code data are included in arequest by front-end server 20 to database server 24 to select a serverthat will service this user for this session (described in detail inconnection with FIG. 10). The response to the request is a virtual IPaddress to a particular handler 22, and a selected database “name” of aselected database server 24.

In step 116, main server system 12, particularly the assigned handler 22and database server 24, is updated with any information contained inuser history data 34 that has not yet been uploaded and processed. Theuser history file contains information indicative of actions taken by,or, events occurring in response to actions taken by, the user of remoteclient system 14. As described above, user history data 34 containsinformation such as the identity of PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information selected,PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information printed, advertising impressions displayed inadvertising pane 72, etc. The assigned handler 22 in conjunction withdatabase server 24 uses the user history file in at least two ways: (i)to produce data from which a user script can be built by the remoteclient system 14 and, (ii) to update the user transaction historydatabase 60, which can then be queried to prepare reports that areprovided as feedback to the various advertising sponsors, PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation issuers, and PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information referral agents.

Step 118 involves obtaining a client script for execution by clientsystem 14. Step 118 includes the substep of identifying PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation at main server system 12 suitable for the user. What issuitable for any particular user can be based on DeviceID data 30, theuser information associated with DeviceID data 30, the mainPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information categories selected by the user, the OSplatform (e.g., MAC OS vs. Windows), the version of client applicationsoftware 28, the cobrand ID, and the promotional code, if any. Use ofthese criteria can be either inclusive and/or exclusive. Client system14 can be sent lists of undownloaded PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information,undownloaded ads, etc. The lists can only identify, for example, thePGS-GM-CL/I-SN information to be downloaded (not the PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation itself). Steps 120, 122, and 124 involve obtaining theactual PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information data, ad data, etc.

In step 120, the master category list, plugins, and brand logoinformation is updated, based on execution of the client script byclient system 14. Particularly, client system 14 works through the listof needed items.

In step 122, advertising data comprising advertising impressions fromadvertising database 52 are updated at the remote client system 14. Thisstep ensures that the user has the most up-to-date advertisingavailable. Again, client system 14 works through a list of needed ads,sequentially making requests from database server 24.In step 124, PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information data from PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation database 50 is updated at remote client system 14. Updatingof the PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information data includes retrievingPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information data corresponding to the identifiedPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information (i.e., the list provided as part of theclient script).

In FIG. 5, a diagrammatic and block diagram view of a system forcontrolling the number of clicks to a clickable advertisement is shown,according to an exemplary embodiment. The system for controlling thenumber of clicks to a clickable advertisement includes additionalfeatures, such as an access module 37 and a web printout 49, accordingto an exemplary embodiment. Client application software 28, DeviceIDdata 30, user preferences 32, user history data 34, advertising data 38and the other features listed in FIG. 1 operate in a similar manner asdetailed in the description of FIG. 1.

In FIG. 6, a block diagram of the system for controlling the number ofclicks to a clickable advertisement shown in FIG. 5 is shown, accordingto an exemplary embodiment. The system for controlling the number ofclicks to a clickable advertisement can include a processing circuit502. Processing circuit 502 can include an access limit module 508, areset frequency module 510, a message module 512, a tracking module 514,a history module 516 and a counter module 518, according to exemplaryembodiments. Access limit module 508 can be configured to limit theamount of times an advertisement, website, and/or PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation can be accessed. The amount of times an advertisement,website, and/or PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information can be accessed can bedetermined manually and/or automatically. The manual process can includedata entry by a user, system administrator, clerk, etc. The automaticprocess can include simple and/or complex algorithms, which can forexample dynamically change the access limit based on inputs, such astime of day, time passed since last access attempt, advertising campaignstrategy and timing, etc. It should be noted that any ^(algorithm) thatis known to a person of ordinary skill in the art is hereby incorporatedinto this disclosure. One and/or more components of processing circuit502 can be operable on client system 14, website server 16, and/or both.The term processing circuit and processor can be used interchangeably.In an exemplary embodiment, counter module 518 monitors the number oftimes the advertisement, website, and/or PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information hasbeen accessed. Processing circuit 502 compares the number of times theadvertisement, website, and/or PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information has beenaccessed to the number of times the user is allowed to access theinformation based on the data stored in access limit module 508 todetermine whether access should be granted.

In an exemplary embodiment, reset frequency module 510 is configured toreset the number of times the advertisement, website and/orPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information has been access based on predeterminedtimeframe. For example, access limit module 508 can be set to limit theaccess to the advertisement, website, and/or PGS-GM-CL/I-SN informationto three times. However, reset frequency module 510 is configured toreset the number of times the advertisement, website, and/orPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information has been accessed to zero every twenty-fourhours. Therefore, the advertisement, website, and/or PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation can be accessed up to three times every twenty-four hours.It should be noted that any reset time interval can be utilized and thatreset frequency module 510 can be configured to increment access limitmodule 508. For example, access limit module 508 can be set to allowaccess three times. After a predetermined timeframe (e.g., twenty-fourhours) has past, reset frequency module 510 can be configured toincrement access limit module 508 to allow access six times.

In an exemplary embodiment, message module 512 is configured to transmitvarious messages. These messages can include access denial messages,access allowed messages, system status messages, promotional messages,informational messages, and/or system reporting messages. In anexemplary embodiment, history module 516 is configured to store ahistory of all advertisement, website, and/or PGS-GM-CL/I-SN informationaccessed by the computing device. In an exemplary embodiment, trackingmodule 514 is configured to analyze the data stored in history module516 to determine any patterns in the advertisements, websites, and/orPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information accessed by the computing device thatindicate misuse, fraud and/or other behavior warranting furtherevaluation.

Processing circuit 502 can be implemented with digital and/or analogcomponents, such as one and/or more processors and/or logic devices,such as a complex instruction set computer (CISC) microprocessor, areduced instruction set computing (RISC) microprocessor, a very longinstruction word (VLIW) microprocessor, a processor implementing acombination of instruction sets, and/or other processor device. In oneembodiment, for example, processing circuit 502 can be implemented as ageneral purpose processor, such as a processor made by Intel™Corporation, Santa Clara, Calif. Processing circuit 502 can also beimplemented as a dedicated processor, such as a controller,microcontroller, embedded processor, a digital signal processor (DSP), anetwork processor, a media processor, an input/output (I/O) processor, amedia access control (MAC) processor, a field programmable gate array(FPGA), a programmable logic device (PLD), and so forth.

In FIG. 7, a flowchart diagram view illustrating interactions betweenclient system 14, and main server system 12 is shown, according to anexemplary embodiment. The process is started by initializing clientsystem 14 that is remote from main server system 12 (step 600). Thesystem determines whether the user is a new user (step 602). If the useris a new user device, then the system collects user information from auser of remote client system 14 indicative of one and/or moredemographic characteristics of the user without obtaining informationsufficient to specifically identify the user (step 604). The systemregisters the new user device by associating a new DeviceID data 30 withthe collected user information (step 606). The system updates clientsystem 14 (step 608). If the user is not a new user, then the systemidentifies client system 14 based on DeviceID data 30 associated withclient system 14 (step 610). The system transmits to main server system12 user history information indicative of actions/events that haveoccurred at client system 14 (step 612). The system obtains a clientscript from the server system based on the user history information(step 614). The system updates the website database according to clientscript (step 616). The system executes client application software 28(step 616).

FIG. 8 shows steps 104, 106, 107 and 112 of FIG. 4 in greater detail.The method begins in step 126 with initiation of client applicationsoftware 28. In step 128, if client application software 28 properlyinitializes, then the method branches to step 130. Otherwise, the methodbranches to step 144 where execution of client application software 28ends. In step 130, a “mutex” is created by client application software28. “Mutex” stands for “mutually exclusive.” Programs and/or codesegments that establish a mutex prevent other programs and/or codesegments from running if they try to establish a mutex with the same ID.Client application software 28 employs mutex functionality in theMicrosoft Operating system to ensure that only one instance of clientapplication software 28 is running on any given client system 14. Asecond instance would be denied use of the mutex, and that instancewould then exit.

In step 132, a test is performed to determine whether the mutex alreadyexists. If the answer is “NO”, the method branches to step 144 whereclient application software 28 ends. However, if the response to theinquiry in step 132 is “YES”, then the method branches to step 134.

In step 134, taskbar icon 102 is created by client application software28. The taskbar icon 102 is graphically illustrated in FIG. 3B. Asdescribed above, a quasi-flashing taskbar icon 102, in an exemplaryembodiment, is a visual alert to the user of client system 14 that newPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information and/or offers are available for browsing. Themethod then proceeds to step 136. In step 136, a User Info object isloaded (if it already exists) and/or created (if it does not alreadyexist). If this is the first time the client application software 28 hasbeen executed, the User Info object must be created. As described above,the User Info object includes DeviceID data 30, demographic data, proxyserver information, if any and software version number. This informationcan be stored, for example, on a hard drive portion of client system 14.The method then proceeds to step 138.

In step 138, client system 14 transmits an echo request to main serversystem 12, which is received by front-end server 20. Inasmuch as clientsystem 14 can be connected to the Internet in a variety of logically andphysically different configurations (e.g., dial-up connection, proxyserver, hidden proxy server such as in the case of AOL, etc.), step 138is provided to ensure a virtual channel for messaging between clientsystem 14 and main server system 12. The method then proceeds to step140. In step 140, a user preference file containing user preference data32 is loaded into the memory of client system 14 for use by clientapplication software 28. Initially, a default set of information isused, in which all PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information categories are selectedand the refresh interval is set to 4 hours. The method then proceeds tostep 142.

In step 142, a test is made by client application software 28 todetermine whether the user preference file has loaded successfully. Ifthe answer to this inquiry is “NO”, then the method branches to step 144(“end program”). This can occur when the user preference file has beendeleted, for example. On the other hand, if the answer to step 142 is“YES”, then the method branches to step 146. In step 146, a memorydatabase is created for maintaining user history events. This databaseis configured to contain the user actions taken by the user, adimpression displayed, etc., and to store the same for later transmittalto main server system 12 as user history data 34.

In step 148, taskbar icon 102 (FIG. 3B) is activated. This provides avisual cue to the user that client application software 28 is available,and, that PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information lists can be browsed,PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information selected and printed out, and/or any otherfunction available on client application software 28. Under certaincircumstances, taskbar icon 102 alerts the user to new PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation and/or offers.

In step 150, client application software 28 begins main event loopprocessing. In main event loop processing, certain action, such as, forexample, selecting a main PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information category, selectingPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information subcategory, selecting a particularPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information, displaying PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information,printing PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information, refreshing the local PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation database, etc., can be initiated by the user and detectedand executed by client application software 28. While the program inaccordance with an exemplary embodiment can be invoked manually by userof client system 14, many operating systems, notably Windows 95/98,allow the user to specify that the execution of client applicationsoftware 28 should occur on startup of the computer on which clientsystem 14 resides. Accordingly, without any further intervention by theuser, upon each startup of client system 14, client application software28 will initialize.

FIG. 9 shows step 138 of FIG. 8 (the “echo request” and/or “ping thenet” step) in greater detail. Execution of the method begins in step 152wherein the “ping thread” portion of client application software 28commences execution. If client system 14 is not “online”, clientapplication software 28 will not force an Internet connection. Thus, instep 154, client application software 28 suspends the “AutoDial” settingin the Windows registry. This ensures that the echo request to front-endserver 20 does not automatically cause a dialog window to be presentedto the user asking for ISP Identification and Password information. Instep 156, client system 14 through execution of client applicationsoftware 28, transmits a request to front-end server 20 to echo. Thenature of the requested “echo” can simply be a return transmittal of anacknowledgement from front-end server 20. In step 158, the “AutoDial”setting is restored in the Windows registry.

In step 160, the ping thread performs a test to determine whether therequested “echo” was received by way of a return transmission fromfront-end server 20. If the answer to this inquiry is “YES”, then themethod branches to step 162, wherein a positive indication that an echoresponse to the echo request was returned to the client system(“DB_PINGOK”) is generated. The positive indication is provided toclient application software 28 (particularly, a database thread portionthereof). Otherwise, if no echo was received from front-end server 20,then a negative indication (“DB_NOPING”) is sent to the database threadin step 164. In either case, control from steps 162 and 164 both proceedto step 166, which is an exit step from the ping thread portion ofclient application software 28.

FIG. 10 shows in detail the steps performed by main server system 12,particularly front-end server 20, in requesting that an appropriatehandler 22 and database server 24 be selected for servicing clientsystem 14. This “server select” operation occurs immediately after asuccessful “echo request” operation (FIG. 9). A plurality of databaseservers 24 can be deployed, the particular number of which is selectedto match the quantity of incoming requests (“load”) from themultiplicity of client systems 14 installed remotely. Step 168 marks thebeginning of the method. At this point, main server system 12 has in itspossession at least the demographic information previously collected(e.g., state and zip code) even if it is a “new user” with no assignedDeviceID data 30 yet. The database server receives the request. Themethod then proceeds to step 170.

In step 170, a database server 24 routine selects entries from a servertable where the state in the table matches the state of residenceprovided by client system 14. The table entry information defines thelogical entities that will service this client system 14.

In step 172, an Internet Protocol (IP) address and a database name arereported over Internet 16 to client system 14. Subsequent requestsduring this session from client system 14 regarding requests for updateddata and the like are sent in a message addressed to the selected serverIP address (which points to a handler 22), and will include in thatmessage the selected database name, which logically maps to entriesselected in step 170 (e.g., these can be various advertisement databases52, PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information databases 50, etc.). The selected IPaddress, in-effect, is a virtual IP address since there are a pluralityof database servers 24, perhaps arranged in a cluster, that arephysically provided in order to provide the desired load carryingcapacity. The routing function is performed on main server system 12, byhandler 22 in a manner known to those of ordinary skill in the art. Themethod ends in step 174.

FIG. 11 shows the steps performed on main server system 12 to register anew user device. The process begins in step 176 with commencement of theregistration routine. In step 178, a new DeviceID data 30 is calculatedby database server 24. In step 180, a new entry and/or record is createdin a user profile table. The profile entry will associate DeviceID data30 with the user information collected from the user. The method thenproceeds to step 182. In step 182, database server 24 determines whethera “sync date” was provided from client system 14. This is a date thatdescribes how “up-to-date” client system 14 is, particularly thePGS-GM-CL/I-SN information and advertising information portions thereof.The use of the sync date has been described above in connection withFIG. 4. This “sync date” is automatically provided from client system 14to database server 24 via the assigned handler 22. If a “sync date” wasnot provided by client system 14, then the method branches to step 184where a nominal sync date based on the version of the software installedon the client system is used for downloading and updating purposes.Alternatively, if the answer to step 182 is “YES”, then the methodbranches to step 186.

In step 186, the date provided by client system 14 is used as the “syncdate” to synchronize the data on client system 14 relative to the masterdata on main server system 12. It should be emphasized that the “syncdate” is not a date that client application software 28 solicits fromthe user, but rather, is simply a date available within clientapplication software 28 relating to how “current” the data is (i.e.,PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information/advertising data, etc.). In either case, themethod proceeds to and ends at step 188.

FIGS. 9, 10 and 11 show step 120 (FIG. 4) in greater detail. Referringto FIG. 12, step 190 represents a request to obtain a master categorylist (i.e., the up-to-date list). This request is made from clientsystem 14 to the selected database server 24 via handler 22. Such arequest is directed to the selected “virtual” IP address as describedabove. The master PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information category list (e.g.,“Athletics”, “Automotive”, “Internet Electronics”, etc.) can be updatedon main server system 12, particularly database server 24. That is,categories can be added, and/or categories can be deleted. In eithercase, such a change are reflected in user interface 62 of the respectiveclient systems 14 when the next session is invoked by a user.

In step 192, all undeleted master PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information categories,along with their display color (as displayed on display device 40 ofclient system 14) are reported out to client system 14 for use by clientapplication software 28. Step 194 ends the master PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation category list updating process.

Referring now to FIG. 13, step 196 represents a request from clientsystem 14 to database server 24 via handler 22 to obtain a new and/or anup-to-date plugin(s). It should be understood that for an existing user,client system 14 can be executing a client script that includes a listcontaining needed plugins. The process outlined in FIG. 13 would beexecuted for each plugin on the list.

In step 198, database server 24 performs a look-up of the needed pluginto locate the corresponding plugin file (or image).

In step 200, an “image” and/or copy of the file of the sought-afterplugin is encrypted in accordance with a server system encryptionstrategy, and is reported and/or transmitted via Internet 16 to clientsystem 14. In step 202, the plugin update process is completed.

Referring now to FIG. 14, steps 204-222 illustrate the steps involved indetermining whether to maintain a default brand logo in logo pane 74(FIG. 3A), or, in the alternative, whether to download a different brandlogo. While a default brand and/or company logo is associated withclient system 14 initially, the default can be changed. For example, auser of Internet 16 can be informed of the existence of PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation distribution system 10 by a third-party vendor who alsomaintains a website, and refers that Internet user to website server 18of main server system 12. The referral mechanism, a hyperlink and/or thelike to website server 18, appends the identification of the referringvendor to the HTTP reference (the ID herein referred to as the “cobrandID”). Website server 18 is configured to recognize and respond to suchappended data (the cobrand ID) by putting a “cookie” (i.e., a file usedby Internet browser programs) on such Internet users and members'computer system that contains the cobrand ID. Then, if such potentialuser of PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information distribution system 10 decides todownload and install the client software, the client installationsoftware will search for the “cookie.” If it finds the “cookie”, andcertain other qualifying criteria are satisfied, then the cobrand ID arepassed to main server system 12 upon installation with a request todownload the text and/or image data of the other (non-default) brandlogo.

Some client systems 14 are deployed with both a default brand logo, andan alternate brand logo (including text/images), in alternativeembodiments. The following steps apply when client application software28 determines that it should display an alternate brand logo. In step204, client system 14 requests a brand logo (non-default). The processproceeds to step 206. In step 206, database server 24 determines whetherclient system 14 provided a date along with the request for thealternate brand logo. If so, then client system 14 already has thetext/images corresponding to the brand logo and just needs to determinewhether to turn the requested brand logo “on” at client system 14.

Thus, if the answer to step 206 is “YES”, then the method branches tostep 208. In step 208, database server 24 conducts a look-up todetermine an activation date for the subject brand logo. The method thenproceeds to step 210. In step 210, database server 24 determines whetherthe client-provided date is “older” than the current activation date. If“YES”, then the method branches to step 212, where the new activationdate is reported out to client system 14. Client system 14 willtherefore defer activation of the alternate, non-default brand logountil such new date. Otherwise, the method branches to step 214, wheredatabase server 24 reports an “ok” to client system 14. Client system 14will then implement (i.e., display) the brand logo corresponding to thecobrand ID.

When the method branches to step 216, (a “NO” to step 206), databaseserver 24 performs another test to determine whether client system 14asked for text corresponding to the cobrand ID. If “YES”, then themethod branches to step 218, where the textual information is encryptedaccording to a server system encryption strategy, and reported out toclient system 14. Otherwise, step 220 is performed, where image datacorresponding to the cobrand ID is encrypted (according to a serversystem encryption strategy), and reported to client system 14. Themethod ends in step 222.

FIG. 15 shows step 122 (“updating advertising data”) of FIG. 4 ingreater detail. In particular, steps 224-232 illustrate, in accordancewith the present disclosure, that advertising text, and images areencrypted to thereby provide secure transmission to client system 14. Itshould be understood that for an existing user device, client system 14can be executing a client script that includes a list containing neededadvertising impressions. The process outlined in FIG. 15 would beexecuted for each advertising impression on the list. Step 224 marks thebeginning of the advertising update method.

In step 226, main server system 12 determines whether the user, moreparticularly client system 14, is requesting “text” and/or “image”advertising data. If the answer is “text”, then the method proceeds tostep 228. In step 228, main server system 12, particularly databaseserver 24, encrypts the text of the advertising data, and reports outthe resulting encrypted advertising data. It should be understood thisencryption occurs in accordance with a server system encryptionstrategy.

Otherwise, the method proceeds to step 230 when the advertising datarequested is “image” data. In step 230, the advertising data (“image”data) is encrypted by main server system 12 according to a main serversystem encryption strategy, resulting in encrypted advertising imagedata. The encrypted ad image data is then reported out to client system14. Step 232 defines the end of the advertising update process.

FIG. 16 illustrates, in greater detail, step 124 in FIG. 4 (“updatingPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information data”). It should be understood that for anexisting user device, client system 14 can be executing a client scriptthat includes a list containing needed PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information data.The process outlined in FIG. 16 would be executed for eachPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information on the list.

Steps 234-244 illustrate that PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information text and imagedata are encrypted in accordance with a server system encryptionstrategy prior to transmission to client system 14, resulting inencrypted PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information data. It bears emphasizing that thesteps 234-244 in FIG. 16, occur at main server system 12. Since thePGS-GM-CL/I-SN information data is encrypted, even if intercepted, theactual PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information cannot be easily recovered andreprinted. This reduces the occurrence of fraud.

In step 234, client system 14 issues a request to get a particularPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information. In step 236, database server 24 encrypts andreports (to client system 14) all smaller text and numeric fields. Insteps 238 and 240, database server 24 encrypts and reports,respectively, first and second images associated with the requestedPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information. In step 242, the very fine print portions ofthe requested e-PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information and/or e-coupon in encryptedand reported out to client system 14. Step 244 is an exit step.

FIG. 17 shows, in greater detail, step 116 of FIG. 4 (“transmitting tothe server system user history information”). Steps 246-264 occurprincipally on main server system 12, more particularly, between handler22 and database server(s) 24. Prior to step 246, client system 14 sendsa message to database server 24 containing the user history data 34.Step 246 marks the beginning of the process used by main server system12 in recording the events contained in the user history data 34.

In step 248, the user and server information is extracted from the userhistory data 34. This information is used in updating the usertransaction records associated with the identified user ofPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information distribution system 10. The informationdeveloped in this process is also used to generate a client script thatare described in further detail. In step 250, a test is made todetermine whether there is any user and server information in the userhistory file. If the answer to this inquiry is “NONE”, then flow of theprocess proceeds to step 252 where an indicator “NO GOOD” is reportedout. Flow of the process then continues to step 254 where the processexits. On the other hand, if user and server information is successfullyextracted from the user history file, flow of the process continues atstep 256. In step 256, a “WHILE DO” process structure is established.Method steps 256, 260, 262, and 264 are continuously repeated whilethere are new history codes remaining to be read-out and extracted fromthe user history data 34.

In step 260, the next history code is extracted along with any argumentspertaining thereto. Flow of the process then proceeds to step 262, and264 where the extracted user history codes are decoded. For example, auser history code designated “F” indicates that PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation entries should be synchronized, for this user to the date soprovided as the argument (i.e., to the so-called “sync date”). This isshown in block 2649. As another example, a user history code “B”,specifies that an advertising impression described in the argumentshould be recorded in a user transaction record. This is shown in block26413. The ad impression, when recorded, can be used thereafter toprepare reports for the sponsor of the advertising impression. Otheruser history codes involve modification of a user transaction entry. Forexample, the code “N” indicates a positive confirmation by client system14 that certain PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information were downloaded successfully.Accordingly, the user transaction entry should be edited to so indicate.In this way, positive feedback is provided as to what PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation have been safely received at the remote client system 14.FIG. 17 specifically identifies thirteen codes, and correspondingresponses, respectively designated 264.sub.1-264.sub.13.

When the last remaining history code has been extracted and decoded, the“WHILE DO” loop at step 256 fails, and flow of the process proceeds tostep 258. In step 258, database server 24 reports an “Okay” message tohandler 22. Flow of the process then proceeds to an exit step,designated step 254. Referring now to FIG. 18, after the user historycodes from user history data 34 have been extracted and decoded, a“client script” is built by client system 14 based on information (e.g.,lists) from handler 22 in cooperation with database server 24. Theclient script provides instructions for main server system 12 toexecute. In step 266, client system 14 issues a request to handler 22 toobtain the “user” and/or “client” script. The client script is thenreturned to client system 14. Step 268 show the execution of the clientscript by client system 14, which issues the commands shown in the steps268-290. In step 268, client system 14 issues commands via handler 22 todatabase server 24 to create user transaction records for any newplugins, main PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information categories, advertising data,and/or PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information data received by client system 14since the last client script was retrieved. In step 270, client system14 issues commands via handler 22 to database server 24 to checkexisting user transaction records for any deletions. Any deletions areprocessed whereby the affected user transaction record are modified toindicate that the client PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information has been deleted. Instep 272, client system 14, in execution of the client script, issues acommand via handler 22 to database server 24 to report all undownloadedplugins. Database server 24, through handler 22, returns a messagecontaining a listing of all undownloaded plugins. This list is processedby client system 14 after the client script has been completed. In step274, client system 14, in execution of the client script, issues acommand via handler 22 to database server 24 to report all undownloadedadvertising impressions. Database server 24 returns a list of allundownloaded ad impressions. In step 276, client system 14, in executionof the client script, issues a command via handler 22 to database server24 to report all undeleted PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information. In step 278,client system 14, in execution of the client script, issues a commandvia handler 22 to database server 24 to determine whether any of themain PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information categories have been changed. If theanswer to this inquiry is “YES”, then flow of the process continues atstep 280, wherein the database server 24 reports to client system 14that a new master category list is needed. Flow then proceeds to step282.

If the answer to the inquiry in step 278 is “NO”, then flow of theprocess proceeds to step 282. In step 282, client system 14, inexecution of the client script, issues a command via handler 22 todatabase server 24 to report all undownloaded PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation. Database server 24 returns a listing of all undownloadedPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information. In step 284, client system 14, in executionof the client script, issues a command via handler 22 to database server24 to report the current official software version. Database server 24returns the latest version number. In step 286, database server 24 isrequested to record the current time as the last user login. Flow of theprocess then continues to step 290, which marks the end of the clientscript execution.

Referring now to FIGS. 16 and 17, upon initial execution of clientapplication software 28, taskbar icon 102 is created, as illustrated inFIG. 3B. Referring particularly now to FIG. 19, steps 292-298 illustratethe steps that client application software 28 performs when the taskbaricon 102 is left double clicked. Step 292 marks the beginning of theprocess that initiates the display of user interface 62. Step 292 isperformed when it is detected that the user has left-double-clicked ontaskbar icon 102. In step 294, client application software 28 creates aninterface thread, unless user interface 62 has already been created by apreexisting interface thread. In step 296, a user interface open dialogmessage is sent to interface thread by client application software 28.The result of the execution of steps 294, and 296 results in the displayshown in FIG. 3A. In step 298, the process that creates user interface62 via an interface thread exits.

Referring now particularly to FIG. 20, in step 300, main clientapplication software 28 determines (via the OS, for example) whentaskbar icon 102 has been right double clicked and enters the process ofsteps 300-308.

In step 302, the “window” in which main user interface 62 wouldgenerally be displayed is hidden from the user (i.e., disappears fromthe display as viewed on display device 40 of client system 14). In step304, client application software 28 sends a user interface-end messageto the interface thread portion of client application software 28. Instep 306, client application software 28 flushes the history (i.e., anyunsaved user history actions and/or events are encrypted and written tothe user history file). In step 308, client application software 28shuts down. This removes client application software 28 from clientsystem 14.

FIG. 21 illustrates a portion of the timing loops executing on mainclient application software 28. The flow chart illustrates the operationof three timers: the “load” timer, the “icon” timer, and the “refresh”timer. The steps in FIG. 21 can hereafter be referred to as the timingloop thread. Step 310 marks the beginning of the processing forevaluating the various timing loops illustrated in FIG. 21. In step 312,a decision is made by client application software 28 as to which timeris being evaluated. If the “load” timer is being evaluated in the timingloop thread illustrated in FIG. 21, then flow of the process continuesat step 313. In step 313, the timing loop thread sends a message to thedatabase thread. In particular, the DB_DOREQUEST is the event thedatabase thread uses to perform the delayed downloading. Client system14 feeds a DB_DOREQUEST event to the database thread while there are anyPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information, plugins, and/or ad impressions remaining todownload. In response to this event, the database thread pops the topdownload request off the download queue and retrieves that item. Flow ofthe process then proceeds to step 314, wherein the “load” timer isreset. Flow of the process then proceeds to step 316, where the timingloop thread exits. On the other hand, if the timer being evaluated isthe “icon” timer, as determined in step 312, then flow of the processproceeds to step 318. In step 318, client application software 28rotates taskbar icon 102. This is done only when there are newPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information and/or offers available to the user onPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information distribution system 10. That is, this is theloop that causes the taskbar icon 102 to change display states so as topresent a “flashing” effect to alert the user to the availability of newPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information and/or offers. The flow of the process thenproceeds through steps 314-316, wherein the “icon” timer is reset andthe timing loop thread is exited.

Finally, if the timer being evaluated in the timing loop thread is the“refresh” timer, as determined in step 312, then flow of the processproceeds to step 320. In step 320, the timing loop determines whetherthe PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information database has been created. If the answeris “NO” then the process proceeds through steps 314-316, where therefresh timer is reset, and the timing loop is exited. On the otherhand, if the answer to the inquiry in step 320 is “YES”, then flow ofthe process proceeds to step 322. In step 322, if a user has not openedthe user interface window containing user interface 62 (FIG. 3A), and,the account is a new account, then flow of the process proceeds to step324, wherein the “create interface” thread is invoked to create userinterface 62 (best shown in FIG. 3A). The process then proceeds to step326, wherein a user interface open dialog message is sent to theinterface thread, which displays user interface 62 in a window. Flowthen proceeds to step 328. If the answer to the inquiry in step 322 is“NO”, then flow of the process also proceeds to step 328.

In step 328, the timing loop determines whether the predetermined,number of hours has passed since the last refresh event. In accordancewith the disclosure, the user can select, as described above, from anumber of different refresh intervals (e.g., one-hour, two-hours, etc.).The value of this parameter is what is being tested in step 328. If theanswer to this inquiry is “YES”, then the process branches to step 330,where the echo-request/ping-the-net thread is invoked (FIG. 9). If theanswer to step 328 is “NO”, then the process branches to step 332. Instep 332, the timing loop thread determines whether the present day is anew calendar day. This parameter needs to be tested because somePGS-GM-CL/I-SN information can now be “expired” that were not “expired”on the prior calendar day. If the answer to this inquiry is “YES”, thenthe process branches to step 334. In step 334, the timing loop threaddetermines whether client application software 28 has processed thePGS-GM-CL/I-SN information expirations arising because of the newcalendar day. If the answer to this inquiry is “YES”, then the processbranches to steps 336, and 338, where expired PGS-GM-CL/I-SN informationare deleted from the database (memory), the database is saved (file),and the database is thereafter reloaded into the memory of the clientapplication software 28. The method proceeds to step 340.

If the answer to the inquiry in step 332 and/or step 334 is “NO” thenthe method branches to step 340. In step 340, the timing loop threaddetermines whether client system 14 is “online.” It can make thisdetermination based on the response from the “ping” thread, invoked instep 330. If the answer to this inquiry is “NO”, then the processbranches to step 342. In step 342, the next timer interval is set tofive minutes (i.e., try again in five minutes to see if the user is“online”). According to an exemplary embodiment, client applicationsoftware 28 will not force the user device to connect to Internet 16 torefresh client system 14, but will simply wait a preselected time (e.g.,five minutes) and check again to see if the user is connected.

Otherwise, if the answer to step 340 is “YES”, then the process branchesto step 344, in which the next timer interval is set to theuser-selected value (i.e., the one hour, two hour, etc. that the userchooses as the selected refresh interval). Flow then proceeds from bothsteps 342 and 344 to step 314 where the “refresh” timer is reset. Theprocess exits in step 316.

In FIG. 22, steps 346-350 illustrate the response of client applicationsoftware 28 when a user “clicks” and/or otherwise selects logo pane 74of user interface 62 (best shown in FIG. 3A). Step 346 marks thebeginning of the routine. Step 346 is entered when client applicationsoftware 28 (via the OS) detects that the user has “clicked” on and/orotherwise selected a portion of logo pane 74.

In step 348, client application software 28 invokes an Internet browserregistered with the operating system of client system 14 as the defaultbrowser and passes thereto a URL. The Internet browser then connects toa website server resource corresponding to the specified URL. This“click” action, therefore, takes the user to the website of the companydisplayed in logo pane 74. Step 350 marks the end of this routine.

FIG. 23 shows the response of client application software 28 when a user“clicks” on and/or otherwise selects a portion of advertising pane 72(best shown in FIG. 3A). Step 352 marks the beginning of the routine. Instep 354, client application software 28 creates a click-through historyrecord indicative of the fact that the user has “clicked” and/orotherwise selected the advertiser displayed in advertising pane 72. Thisare included in user history data 34, which will thereafter be encryptedand transmitted to main server system 12 for processing.

In step 356, the client application software 28 launches an Internetbrowser registered with the operating system of client system 14, andpasses thereto a URL corresponding to the advertiser displayed inadvertising pane 72. When the Internet browser executes, it connects toa website server resource defined by the URL. In-effect, the foregoingactions take the user to the advertisers website specified in the URL.Step 358 marks the end of this routine.

FIG. 24 illustrates a response taken by client application software 28when a user “clicks” on and/or otherwise selects an item appearing inPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information subcategory list 68 (best shown in FIG. 3A).Step 360 marks the beginning of the process. Step 360 is entered whenclient application software 28 (via the OS) determines that an item inPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information subcategory list 68 has been “clicked” on. Instep 362, client application software 28 determines whether theselection was a “click” and/or a “double-click.” Depending on which ofthese events occurred, client application software 28 will takealternative courses of action. If the action is a single-click, then themethod branches to step 364.

In step 364, the local PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information database is locked byclient application software 28. The process proceeds to step 366. Instep 366, the selected subcategory item is retrieved from the localdatabase on client system 14. In step 368, the contents ofPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information list 70 is reset by client applicationsoftware 28 according to the contents of the new subcategory. Forexample, if the new subcategory pertains to PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information,then the new PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information associated with the new selectedsubcategory are displayed in PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information list 70 (bestshown in FIG. 3A). In step 370, client application software 28determines and/or otherwise selects an advertising impression to bedisplayed in advertising pane 72 in accordance with a predeterminedadvertising impression selection strategy. In the illustratedembodiment, the selection criteria includes the identity of the selectedPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information subcategory. In step 372, a test is performedby client application software 28 to determine whether the newlyselected advertising impression is different from the advertisingimpression currently being displayed. If the answer is “YES”, then theprocess branches to step 374, where the new advertising impression isdisplayed in advertising pane 72, and an advertising impression historyrecord is created for inclusion in the user history data 34. The methodproceeds to step 376, which exits the thread shown in FIG. 24.

If the answer to step 372 is “NO”, however, then the process branches tostep 376, which is an exit step. If the action evaluated in step 362 isdetermined to be a “double click”, then the process branches to step378. “Double clicking” PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information subcategory is a userrequest to refresh the contents of that subcategory. In step 378, clientapplication software 28 creates a refresh history event for thatsubcategory. In step 380, client application software 28 sends to thedatabase thread a request to flush the current history. The contents ofthat subcategory are then downloaded (available on display device 40) asif they were new. In step 382, a message is sent to the database threadto do idle processing.

FIG. 25 illustrates the response by client application software 28 whena user “clicks” on an item from PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information list 70. Theprocess begins in step 384. Step 384 is entered when client applicationsoftware 28 detects that an item in the PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information list70 (VIA the OS) has been “clicked” on.

In step 386, client application software 28 locks the localPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information database for the interface thread. In step388, client application software 28 obtains from the localPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information database the item corresponding to thatselected in PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information list 70. In step 390, clientapplication software 28 determines whether the item in PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation list 70 that was clicked on was actually “selected.” If theanswer to this inquiry is “NO”, then the method branches to step 392,which is an exit.

If the answer to step 390 is “YES”, then the process branches to step394. In step 394, client application software 28 sets the shownPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information to correspond to the item selected inPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information list 70. The process then proceeds to step396. In step 396, client application software 28, by way of theinterface thread, displays the PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information inPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information display area 76. The method then proceeds tostep 392, which is an exit step.

FIG. 26 illustrates the process carried out by client applicationsoftware 28 when the “Add to Cart” button 78 is “clicked” on and/orotherwise selected by the user. Step 398 is invoked when clientapplication software 28 (VIA the OS) determines that the Add to Cartbutton has been “clicked” on. The process then proceeds to step 400. Instep 400, client application software 28 performs a test to determinewhether there is PGS-GM-CL/I-SN product or service information currentlydisplayed in PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information display area 76. If the answerto step 400 is “NO”, then the method branches to step 414, which is anexit step. If the answer to step 400 is “YES”, then the method branchesto step 402. In step 402, client application software 28 determineswhether the PGS-GM-CL/I-SN product or service information currentlybeing displayed in PGS-GM-CL/I-SN product or service information displayarea 76 is already in the cart. If the answer to this inquiry is “YES”,then the method branches to step 404. In step 404, client applicationsoftware 28 causes a predetermined message to be displayed in messagedisplay area 94 advising, for example, the user that the PGS-GM-CL/I-SNproduct or service information is already in queue of the cart. Thisinsures that PGS-GM-CL/I-SN product or service information is not addedto the shopping cart more times than the user desires. If the userin-fact wishes to make multiple entries of a product or service into theshopping cart, the user can alternatively click on the “add to cart”button to add more than one product or service to the shopping cart. Theprocess then proceeds to step 414, which is an exit step.

If the answer to step 402 is “NO”, then the method branches to step 406.In step 406, client application software 28 determines whether theproposed adding to the cart of the product or service corresponding tothe PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information displayed is confirmed as an error by theuser. If the answer to this step is “YES”, then the method branches tostep 408. In step 408, an appropriate message is displayed to the userin message display area 94, advising that the selected product orservice has been removed from the cart. The method then proceeds to step414, which is an exit step.

If the answer to step 406 is “NO”, then the method branches to step 410.In step 410, the PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information currently being displayed inPGS-GM-CL/I-SN information display area 76 is used to add a selectedproduct or service to the cart. The method proceeds to step 412, whereinmessage display area 94 is cleared, thereby clearing any pre-existingmessage displayed therein. The process then proceeds to step 414, whichis an exit step. For some PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information displayed, it is ofvalue to limit the number of times a specific user can access thePGS-GM-CL/I-SN information. For example, a particular vendor can wish tolimit the number of PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information available to a user to aspecific amount. Similarly, for clickable links from advertisers (i.e.,clickable advertisements), it is also of value to limit the number oftimes a specific user can click on the advertisement. In response to aclick on a clickable advertisement, a user is typically transferred toanother website that relates to the information present in the clickableadvertisement. By being able to limit the number of times a specificuser can click on the advertisement, the advertiser can be more certainthat the click on the advertisement was a true access and/or intendedclick by a particular user.

Limiting the clicking of clickable advertisements is particularly usefulto avoid click fraud. Click fraud can occur, for example, in pay perclick online advertising when a person, automated script, and/orcomputer program imitates a legitimate user of a web browser clicking onan ad for the purpose of generating a charge per click without havingactual interest in the target of the ads link. Pay per click advertisingis an arrangement in which webmasters (operators of web sites), actingas publishers, display clickable advertisements from advertisers, inexchange for a charge per click. By limiting the number of times aparticular client system 14 can click on a clickable advertisement to aset amount, e.g., three, the ability to commit click fraud issignificantly reduced. Moreover, if an advertiser can control the numberof clicks to a clickable advertisement from a particular client system14, the advertiser is more likely to increase the amount it will pay foreach unique click of the clickable advertisement. To promote controlover the clicking on of clickable advertisements, each clickableadvertisement can include an access limit, which defines the number oftimes any client system can click on the clickable advertisement. Forexample, if the access limit for a clickable advertisement is three,then client application software 28 of a particular client system 14would only be able to click on that clickable advertisement three times.In an exemplary embodiment, client application software 28 can beconfigured to allow access to the advertisement but not increment thecount for revenue generation purposes (e.g., search engine revenue,etc.).

The system for displaying an advertisement from an advertisementdatabase on a client computer on a network can include processingcircuit 502 configured to receive a display request for an advertisementand to provide access to display the advertisement. Processing circuit502 can be further configured to determine a revenue counting displaylimit and a number of times the advertisement has been displayed.Processing circuit 502 can also be configured to increment a revenueaccount and/or revenue counter based on a comparison of the number oftimes the advertisement has been displayed to the revenue countingdisplay limit.

The system for displaying an advertisement from an advertisementdatabase on a client computer on a network can also not increment therevenue account if the number of times the advertisement has beendisplayed exceeds the revenue counting display limit. The system fordisplaying an advertisement from an advertisement database on a clientcomputer on a network can also increment the revenue account if thenumber of times the advertisement has been displayed does not exceed therevenue counting display limit.

The system for displaying an advertisement from an advertisementdatabase on a client computer on a network can also include processingcircuit 502 and/or components thereof being configured to be partiallyoperated on main server system 12. Processing circuit 502 and/orcomponents thereof can also be configured to be partially operated onclient system 14 and/or client computing device. The system fordisplaying an advertisement from an advertisement database on a clientcomputer on a network can also include the revenue counting displaylimit being stored on main server system 12.

The access limit for each clickable advertisement could be stored, forexample, in database server 24, and/or in a secure area of client system14. In addition, for each clickable advertisement, a counter can bemaintained in the database server 24 for each DeviceID data 30. Thecounter counts the number of times a particular DeviceID data 30 hasclicked on the associated clickable advertisement.

The method for controlling access to PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information caninclude assigning an identifier (e.g., DeviceID data 30) to a clientcomputer and receiving a request from client application software 28operating on the client computer to view PGS-GM-CL/I-SN informationimage data for the PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information. The method can alsoinclude displaying the PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information image data on theclient computer and receiving a request to access the PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation from client application software 28. The request can includethe identifier assigned to the client computer. The method can alsoinclude determining an access limit for the PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information.The access limit being a number of times that the client computer ispermitted to access the PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information. The method can alsoinclude determining the number of times the PGS-GM-CL/I-SN informationhas been accessed based on the identifier and controlling access to thePGS-GM-CL/I-SN information based on the number of times thePGS-GM-CL/I-SN information has been accessed and the access limit.

The method can further include transmitting the PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation to the client computer based on the controlling step. Themethod can also include transferring the user to a website correspondingto the PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information in response to a request for moreinformation from the client computer. The method can also includeincrementing a counter associated with the PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information inresponse to the request wherein the counter corresponding to the numberof times the PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information has been accessed. The methodcan also include transmitting the PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information accessreport to a remote device. The method can further include that thePGS-GM-CL/I-SN information image data comprises a thumbnail image and anoverlay information.

It should be noted that access can include transmitting data to a printqueue, transmitting data based on clicking on and/or any other method ofactivating a hyper link, initiating a search (e.g., an internet searchengine, an intranet search engine, a local computing device search,and/or any other search known to a person skilled in the art),displaying data, receiving data, transmitting data and/or anycombination thereof. Access as used herein can refer to any of a numberof ways that client system 14 can be configured to provide access to theuser, in various alternative embodiments. It should also be noted thataccess limit can include number of times client system 14 can print anadvertisement, number of times client system 14 can send anadvertisement to a print queue, number of times client system 14 can beallowed to display an advertisement, the number of times client system14 can be allowed to click thorough a clickable link to display anadvertisement, the number of times client system 14 can be allowed todownload an advertisement from the advertisement server, the number oftimes a user can click on a link which is a result of a search performedon an internet search engine, and/or any other way client system 14 canbe allowed to access an advertisement. The access limit can be limits onother user accesses to advertisement. Accordingly, providing access,limiting access, and/or requesting access as used herein can refer tosteps relating to any of the above mentioned types of access.

FIGS. 27A and 27B are flow diagrams of processes for controlling thenumber of clicks to a clickable advertisement. As shown in FIG. 27A, instep 420, a request is received from client application software 28 of aparticular client system 14 to view clickable advertisements. Therequest preferably includes DeviceID data 30, which is a uniqueidentifier assigned to the client system 14 that uniquely identifiesclient system 14 making the request. The request can be made in responseto linking and/or accessing a particular website and/or by submittingthe request through user interface 62.

In step 422, an access limit is identified for each of the clickableadvertisements that are responsive to the received request. Based on thereceived request, main server system 12 can identify an appropriatehandler 22 and database server 24 for servicing the request. Handler 22accesses database server 24, which can includes a list of availableclickable advertisements, to identify the clickable advertisements(including PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information) responsive to the request and toidentify the access limits associated with those clickableadvertisements.

In step 424, for each of the clickable advertisements responsive to therequest, it is determined how many times each clickable advertisementhas been clicked on by client application software 28 and/or clientsystem 14 based on the associated DeviceID data 30. This information canbe determined by checking the values of the counters held in databaseserver 24 for each clickable advertisement corresponding to DeviceIDdata 30 provided in the request.

In step 426, clickable advertisements are made available to therequesting client system 14 that have been accessed (i.e., clicked on)by client system 14 fewer times than the access limit. To determine if aclickable advertisement should be made available, main server system 12compares the identified access limit to the determined number ofaccesses set in the corresponding counter. If the access limit isgreater than the determined number of accesses set in the correspondingcounter, then the clickable advertisement is made available to therequesting client system 14. On the other hand, if the access limit isequal to (or less than) the determined number of accesses set in thecorresponding counter, then the clickable advertisement is not madeavailable to the requesting client system 14. The clickableadvertisements made available to the client system 14 can be viewed, forexample, in advertising pane 72 and/or logo pane 74. Each of theclickable advertisements made available to client system 14 can beaccessed, i.e., clicked on, by the user at client system 14.

In step 428, in addition to making the clickable advertisement availableto be clicked on by the user at client system 14, if the clickableadvertisement is PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information, then the user is permittedto print PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information as well. To print PGS-GM-CL/I-SNinformation, the user can select the “Print Now” button 80, which printsthe PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information currently being viewed on printer 46. Instep 430, in response to the click of the clickable advertisement, thecounter associated with that clickable advertisement and correspondingto DeviceID data 30 of client application software 28 and/or clientsystem 14 is incremented. More specifically, client application software28 can generate a signal to main server system 12 indicating that theclickable advertisement has been clicked on, and based on that signalthe server increments the applicable counter in database server 24. Thesignal can include information identifying the clickable advertisement,as well as DeviceID data 30 of client system 14. Accordingly, each timea clickable advertisement is clicked on, the counter associated with theclickable advertisement is incremented, and once the count in thecounter reaches the access limit, the user at that client system 14 isno longer permitted to click on that clickable advertisement. It shouldbe noted that client system 14 can be a client computer.

The method for controlling access to advertisement in a network caninclude assigning an identifier to a client computer and receiving arequest from client application software 28 operating on the clientcomputer to access the advertisement. The request can include theidentifier assigned to the client computer. The advertisement can havean access limit. The method can also include determining the number oftimes that the advertisement has been accessed by the client computerbased on the identifier. The method can further include comparing thenumber of times the advertisement has been accessed to the access limitand providing the client computer with access to the advertisement basedon the comparison. The method can also include sending to the clientcomputer the advertisement if the access limit has not been exceeded.The method can further include transferring the user to a websitecorresponding to the advertisement if the access limit has not beenexceeded. The method can further include refusing access for the clientcomputer to the advertisement if the access limit has been met and/orexceeded. The method can also include sending to the client computer amessage indicating that access has been refused. The method can alsoinclude incrementing the access counter based on receiving the requestfrom the client application operating on the client computer to accessthe advertisement. The method can further include transmitting anadvertisement access report to a remote server. The method can furtherinclude the identifier being assigned to the client computer by theclient application. The method can also include that the identifierbeing assigned to the client computer is not one of a DeviceID data 30and/or an interne protocol address. The method can also includeencrypting the advertisement at a server to generate a first encryptedadvertisement and further encrypting the first encrypted advertisementat the client computer to generate a second encrypted advertisement.

The system for monitoring access to an advertisement can includeprocessing circuit configured to determine an advertisement access limitand the number of times the advertisement has been accessed, accordingto an exemplary embodiment. The system can further include processingcircuit being configured to be partially operated on a server, accordingto an exemplary embodiment. The system can also include processingcircuit being configured to be partially operated on a client computingdevice, according to an exemplary embodiment. The system can furtherinclude processing circuit being configured to receive a request toaccess an advertisement, according to an exemplary embodiment. Therequest can include an identifier assigned to the computing device,according to an exemplary embodiment. Processing circuit can determinethe number of times that the advertisement has been accessed by thecomputing device based on the identifier, according to an exemplaryembodiment. Processing circuit can generate a comparison based on anaccess counter module/circuit data and an access limit module/circuitdata, according to an exemplary embodiment. Processing circuit cantransmits an access control signal based on the comparison, according toan exemplary embodiment. The system can also include processing circuitdetermining that the access limit has not been exceeded based on thecomparison and transmits the advertisement to the computing device,according to an exemplary embodiment. The system can further include theuser being transferred to a website corresponding to the advertisementbased on a request for more information, according to an exemplaryembodiment. The system can also include processing circuit determiningthat the access limit has been exceeded and the advertisement is notsent to the computing device, according to an exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 27B illustrates a process similar to the one in FIG. 27A. Like theprocess of FIG. 27A, in step 432 of FIG. 27B, a request is received fromthe client application software 28 to view clickable advertisements, therequest including DeviceID data 30 that uniquely identifies clientsystem 14 making the request. However, instead of checking the accesslimit of responsive clickable advertisements, all clickableadvertisements that are responsive to the request are made available tothe requesting client system 14 in step 434. To determine whichclickable advertisements are responsive, main server system 12 canidentify an appropriate handler 22 and database server 24 for servicingthe request. Handler 22 can access database server 24 to identify theclickable advertisements responsive to the request. The user at clientsystem 14 can try to click on any of the clickable advertisement madeavailable to client system 14. In step 436, in response to clicking on aselected clickable advertisement, a request is received by main serversystem 12 for access to that clickable advertisement. The request caninclude information identifying the selected clickable advertisement, aswell as DeviceID data 30 of the requesting client system 14. In step438, in response to the received request, an access limit is identifiedfor the selected clickable advertisement. More particularly, main serversystem 12 can identify an appropriate handler 22 to access databaseserver 24 and identify the access limits associated with the selectedclickable advertisement. In step 440, it is determined how many timesthe selected clickable advertisement has been clicked on by clientapplication software 28 and/or client system 14 based on the associatedDeviceID data 30. This information can be determined by checking thevalues of the counter held in database server 24 for the selectedclickable advertisement corresponding to DeviceID data 30 provided inthe request.

In step 442, the user is permitted to click on and access the selectedclickable advertisement if it is determined that the clickableadvertisement has been accessed by client system 14 fewer times than theaccess limit. To determine if a clickable advertisement should be madeavailable, main server system 12 compares the identified access limit tothe determined number of accesses (i.e., clicks) set in thecorresponding counter. If the access limit is greater than thedetermined number of accesses set in the corresponding counter, then theuser is permitted to click on and access the clickable advertisement atthe requesting client system 14. On the other hand, if the access limitis equal to (or less than) the determined number of accesses set in thecorresponding counter, then the user is not permitted to click on andaccess the clickable advertisement at client system 14. If permitted toclick on and access the clickable advertisement, and the clickableadvertisement is PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information, then the user can print oradd to a cart the PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information, for example, by selectingthe “Print Now” button 80, which prints the PGS-GM-CL/I-SN informationcurrently being viewed on printer 46.

In step 444, in response to the click of a clickable advertisement, thecounter associated with that clickable advertisement and correspondingto DeviceID data 30 of client application software 28 and/or clientsystem 14 is incremented. More specifically, client application software28 can generate a signal to main server system 12 indicating that theaccessed clickable advertisement has been clicked on, and based on thatsignal main server system 12 increments the applicable counter indatabase server 24. The signal can include information identifying theclickable advertisement, as well as DeviceID data 30 of client system14. Accordingly, each time a clickable advertisement is clicked on andaccessed, the counter associated with the clickable advertisement isincremented, and once the count in the counter reaches the access limit,no user at that client system 14 is permitted to click on and accessthat clickable advertisement.

The method for controlling access to a clickable advertisement in anetwork includes assigning a computer identifier to a client computerand receiving a request from client application software 28 operating onthe client computer to access the clickable advertisement. The requestincludes the computer identifier assigned to the client computer. Theclickable advertisement having an access limit. The access limit beingthe number of times that the client computer is permitted to access theclickable advertisement. The method can include determining the numberof times that the clickable advertisement has been accessed by theclient computer based on the computer identifier. The method also caninclude comparing the number of times the clickable advertisement hasbeen accessed to the access limit. The method can include providing theclient computer with access to the clickable advertisement based on thecomparison and storing the comparison. The method can further includesending to the client computer the clickable advertisement based on thecomparison because the comparison determined that the access limit hasnot been exceeded.

The method can further include transferring the user to a websitecorresponding to the clickable advertisement based on the comparisonbecause the comparison determined that the access limit has not beenexceeded. The method can further include refusing access for the clientcomputer to the clickable advertisement based on the comparison becausethe comparison determined that the access limit has been exceeded. Themethod can also include sending a message to the client computerindicating that access has been refused. The method can further includeincrementing an access counter based on receiving the request fromclient application software 28 operating on the client computer toaccess the clickable advertisement. The method can further includetransmitting a clickable advertisement access report.

Referring to FIG. 28, a flow diagram 600 of the process for controllingclicks to a clickable advertisement is shown, according to an exemplaryembodiment. In step 602, the system loads an offers list onto the clientdevice, a server, and/or another computing device. An offers list is aset of advertisements, PGS-GM-CL/I-SN information, websites, and/or anyother offers. In step 604, the system detects the cart control of theclient device, server, and/or another computing device. In step 606, thesystem determines whether the cart manager are installed. If the cartmanager are installed, then the process moves to step 608. In step 608,the system installs the cart manager and receives DeviceID data 30 andsave it on client device, server, and/or another computing device. Afterinstalling cart manager and receiving DeviceID data 30 (step 608), theprocess moves to step 612. If the print manager will not be installed,then the process moves to step 610. In step 610, the system determineswhether the cart manager is already installed. If the cart manager isnot already installed, the process moves to step 614. In step 614, thesystem receives DeviceID data 30 and saves it on client device, server,and/or another computing device. In step 616, the system receives theoffering lists, limits per DeviceID data 30 and click limits perDeviceID data 30. If the cart manager is already installed, the processmoves to step 612. In step 612, the system receives the offering listsper DeviceID data 30 and click limits per DeviceID data 30. In step 618,the system determines whether the device limit has been reached. If thedevice limit has been reached, then in step 620 the system disablesaccess to the data requested by that device. If the device limit has notbeen reached, then the process moves to step 622. In step 622, thesystem determines whether the campaign limit has been reached. Acampaign limit can be a promotional limit, a budget limit, a sales limitand/or any other limit placed on the advertisement. If the campaignlimit has been reached, then the system in step 626 disables access tothe data for all devices. If the system determines that the campaignlimit has not been reached, then the system in step 624 registers theaccess to the data.

Referring to FIG. 29, illustrations of a screen display defining aninterface associated with a client system portion are shown, accordingto exemplary embodiments, e.g., as Social Earth. FIG. 29 is similar toFIGS. 3A and 3B with the added feature of being able to utilize a pulldown menus 652, 654, 656, and 658 to retrieve PGS-GM-CL/I-SN informationdata. It is to be understood that the above description is merelyexemplary rather than limiting in nature, the disclosure being limitedonly by the appended claims. Various modifications and changes can bemade thereto by one of ordinary skill in the art, which embody theprinciples of the disclosure and fall within the spirit and scopethereof. For example, one and/or more steps described herein as beingperformed by client system 14 and/or main server system 12 can beperformed by the other of client system 14 and/or main server system 12,and/or by both.

For example, a thin client can be operable on client system 14 tointerface with main server system 12. A thin client is a client computerand/or client software in client-server architecture networks, whichdepends primarily on the central server for processing activities, andmainly focuses on conveying input and output between the user and theremote server. In contrast, a thick and/or fat client does as muchprocessing as possible and passes only data for communications andstorage to the server. Many thin client devices run only web browsersand/or remote desktop software, meaning that all significant processingoccurs on the server.

The present invention provides in one aspect a delivery system for ageospatial website for a multidimensional representation of informationand/or scalable versions of web content for the delivery of Products,Goods & Services combined with /Geospatial Mapping/Company-LocalInformation/Social Networking/Communities (“PGS-GM-CL/I-SN”) on a threedimensional geospatial platform using geospatial mapping technology. Oneexample of an aspect of the invention is a geospatial website thataggregates, inter alia, promotions, online coupons, mobile services,Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions oronline auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising or services,including without limitation, such items as service providers, businesscenters and affiliates for related company information, media andentertainment, sports, personal & financial network, travel &hospitality services, real estate, educational services, ancillaryservices, penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements, serviceproviders, social networking, social networking communities, socialplugins, promotions, social applications, entertainment shopping, pennyauctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising orservices, social networking, social networking communities, onlinecommunications, messaging, user profiles, viewing public & private userprofiles, online dating, gaming, retail stores, virtual communities andvirtual goods and information about microloans or microcredit,humanitarian aid and support other worldly causes through charitabledonations or sustainable gifts to those in need (collectively “Products,Goods & Services”) from around the world and/or showcases them in theiractual, physical location on the websites live view of Earth incombination with social networking and/or socially conscious informationand/or activities. The present invention addresses problems and/orshortcomings of online products, goods or services, which should alsoprovide socially conscious information about the companies that supplythe coupons so that consumers can see where the companies and/or storesare located and can find out information about the companies,communities they are located in, what interaction and help they provideto communities and/or other economic and/or socially responsibleactivities, and to associate the geographical and other geospatiallyavailable information connecting also by the use of integrated socialmedia, which combination is not current provided and/or available.

As users and members and/or subscribers of the website, (e.g., “SocialShoppers”) shop the world for bargains, they can view promotions, onlinecoupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services, entertainmentshopping, penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements andaffiliate advertising or services for such items as e.g., but notlimited to, family fun, spoils, restaurants, events and/or hundreds oftop consumer packaged goods brand/brandors for, e.g., but not limitedto, groceries, apparel, beverages, books & magazines, foods, healthcare, household, office, personal care, pet care, photography and/or thelike. Such users and members and/or subscribers (e.g., “SocialShoppers”) can find great promotions, online coupons, mobile services,Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions oronline auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising or servicesfrom merchants and sellers from around the world in the leading travel &hospitality industry, restaurants, toy and/or entertainment companiesand/or top retailers around the world. The delivery system for a hostgeospatial website can provide for a multidimensional representation ofinformation and/or scalable version of web content for an infrastructureand global platform that provides users and members and businesses ofall types and sizes with access to broad markets and connect buyers andsellers and to reach people at the point of shopping through GPStechnology—a benefit both to shoppers and merchants and delivery ofpromotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services,entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising or services from merchants andsellers from around the world on a three dimensional geospatial platformusing geospatial mapping technology. A host geospatial website caninclude realistic virtual landscape using satellite and/or aerialphotography that can include many content layers of web basedinformation, e-commerce and mobile banking links, social networking,social networking communities, social plugins, promotions, socialapplications and/or advertisements for a richer user experience. A hostwebsite shall store images, web-based content, social data and/or sharelive social feeds from social networks and/or other communications inreal-time. Connecting promotions, online coupons, mobile servicesProducts, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions oronline auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising or servicesfrom merchants and sellers from around the world with a highly-engagedsocial networking community of savvy Social Shoppers based upon adesired location in real-time on a geographical area across multiplesocial layers that are displayed as graphic animated color overlays on athree dimensional geospatial platform using geospatial mappingtechnology.” The invention can also provide mobile payment method and/orsystem for effectuating an online payment through a mobile device tocomplete an e-commerce and mobile banking transaction on a threedimensional geospatial platform using geospatial mapping technology.

The invention can further provide in one aspect geospatial websiteaggregates promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods& Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising or services from merchants andsellers from around the world and/or showcases them in their actual,physical location on the websites unique live view of Earth. As usersand members and/or subscribers shop the world for bargains, they canview online promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods& Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising or services for such items asfamily fun, sports, restaurants, events and/or hundreds of top consumerpackaged goods brand/brandors for groceries, apparel, beverages, books &magazines, foods, health care, household, office, personal care, petcare, photography and/or more! Social Shoppers can to find greatproduct, goods or services deals from leading travel & hospitality,restaurant, toy and/or entertainment companies and/or top retailersaround the world. Social Shoppers can to use “a mobile device paymentmethod and/or system for effectuating an online payment through acomputer or mobile device equipped carrier and/or a mobile deviceequipped bank using a mobile users and members device in connection withe-commerce and mobile banking transactions on the host geospatialwebsite via a computer or mobile device (e.g., mobile telephone, PDA,laptop computer, etc.); wherein users and members create and/or maintaina rich-media application via a geospatial mapping platform via theInternet comprising: mobile banking and/or electronic payments. Thedelivery system for a host geospatial website can provide for amultidimensional representation of information and/or sealable versionof web content for the delivery of promotions, online coupons, mobileservices, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, pennyauctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising orservices from merchants and sellers from around the world on a threedimensional geospatial platform using geospatial mapping technology. Ahost geospatial website can include realistic virtual landscape usingsatellite and/or aerial photography that can include many content layersof web based information, c-commerce and mobile banking links, socialnetworking and/or virtual advertisements for a richer user experience.

A host geospatial website shall store images, web-based content, socialdata, social networking, social networking communities, promotions,social applications, user profiles, messaging, viewing public & privateuser profiles and live social feeds from social networks such asFacebook™ and Twitter™, social plugins, social applications,advertisements and/or other communications based upon a desired locationin real-time. Connecting promotions, online coupons, mobile services,Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions oronline auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising or serviceswith merchants and sellers from around the world with Social Shoppersbased upon a desired location in real-time on a geographical area acrossmultiple social layers that are displayed as graphic animated coloroverlays on a three dimensional geospatial platform using geospatialmapping technology. More specifically, it relates to a method for usersand members known as “Social Shoppers” to effectuate banking and/orelectronic payments; accessing a user account, engaging in mobile socialnetworking, social networking communities, social networking activitiesand/or viewing user profiles, sending messages, online communications,viewing public & private user profiles and other available options via athree dimensional geospatial mapping platform using geospatial mappingtechnology.

The foregoing description of exemplary embodiments of the disclosure hasbeen presented for purposes of illustration and description. It is notintended to be exhaustive and/or to limit the disclosure to the preciseform disclosed, and modifications and variations are possible in lightof the above teachings and/or can be acquired from practice of thedisclosure. The embodiments (which can be practiced separately and/or incombination) were chosen and described in order to explain theprinciples of the disclosure and as a practical application to enableone skilled in the art to make and use the disclosure in variousembodiments and with various modifications suited to the particular usescontemplated. It is intended that the scope of the disclosure is notlimited to the disclosure herein, but covers any embodiment expressed toone of ordinary skill in the relevant arts in combination with what isknown in the art, and their equivalents.

A geographic information system (GIS) (also called geographic mappingand/or “GM”) is a computer technology that provides an analyticalframework for managing and integrating data, solving problems, and/orunderstanding past, present, and/or future situations. A GIS can linkinformation and/or attributes to location data (hereinafter referred toas a “feature”), for example, people to addresses, buildings to parcels,and/or streets within a network. GIS and/or GM can further layer suchinformation to present a better and/or clearer understanding of how manydifferent variables interrelate and/or work together. Layers can be inthe form of colored and/or textured overlays, graphics, icons, graphs,and/or other visual indicators of data in context with a geographiclocation associated with the data.

A GIS and/or GM is most often associated with maps formed within aframework of a common coordinate system, such as the World GeodeticSystem 1984 (WGS84). Reference locations within the framework can bespecified by and/or translated to and/or from locations defined within acommon coordinate system, so as to allow integration of disparate dataand functionality with a geospatial browser. A map, however, is only oneway a user can work with geographic data in a GIS and/or GM and is onlyone type of output generated by a GIS and/or GM. Furthermore, a GISand/or GM can provide many more problem-solving capabilities than usinga simple mapping program and/or adding data to an online mapping tool(e.g., in a “mash-up”).

Generally, a GIS and/or GM can be viewed in at least three ways, (1) asa database; (2) as a map; and/or (3) as a model. As a database, a GISprovides a unique kind of database relating to the Earth and/or othermapped region, such as a geographic database and/or geo-database.Fundamentally, a GM is based on a structured database that describes themapped region in geographic terms. GM maps can be either two and/orthree dimensional in presentation. GM maps are generally constructed of“tiles” that are unit areas of a geographic region. Tiles can beidentified in the database by coordinate boundaries and/or individualreference identifications allocated to each tile. The number of tilescovering a particular geographic region will vary depending upon theresolution of the map requested; a high resolution map (e.g., 1 m) of ageographic area will have substantially more tiles than a lowerresolution map of the same area. Maps combining the underlyinggeographic information with overlays of associated data can beconstructed and used as “windows into the database” to support queries,analysis, and editing of the information in a process called“geo-visualization.” As a model, a GM is a set of informationtransformation and/or “geo-processing” tools that derive new geographicdatasets from existing datasets. This geo-processing functionality cantake information from existing datasets, apply analytic functions, andwrite results into new derived datasets that show features and featurerelationships with the mapped region and present the results to a user.

A GM allows mapping of locations and things and identification of placeswith requested features. GIS mapping can provide information aboutindividual feature and/or present a distribution of features on a map toidentify patterns. GM and/or GIS mapping can be based upon and/orfiltered by quantities, for example, locations of most and least of afeature. GM and/or GIS mapping can also find and establish relationshipsbetween places, features, conditions, and/or events and determine wherecertain criteria are met and/or not met. GM and/or GIS mapping can alsopresent densities to view concentrations. A density map allowsmeasurement of a number of features using a uniform area unit, such asacres and/or square miles, to clearly present the distribution. Thisfunctionality provides an additional level of information beyond simplymapping the locations of features.

GM and/or GIS can also be used to depict events occurring within and/ornearby an area. For example, a district attorney might monitordrug-related arrests to find out if an arrest is within 1,000 feet of aschool; if so, stiffer penalties can apply. GM and/or GIS can be used todetermine items within a set distance of a feature by mapping an areawithin a range of the feature. GM and/or GIS can also be used to map thechange in an area to anticipate future conditions, decide on a course ofaction, and/or to evaluate the results of an action and/or policy. Bymapping where and how things move over a period of time, insight intotrends and/or behaviors can be gained.

GM and/or GIS can be used to map changes to anticipate future needs. Forexample, a police chief might study how crime patterns change from monthto month to help decide where officers should be assigned. GM and/or GIScan also be used to map conditions before and after an action and/orevent to see the impact. For example, a retail analyst might map thechange in store sales before and after a regional ad campaign to seewhere the ads were most effective.

A GM and/or GIS can be implemented in a geospatial decision managementsystem (GDMS) 100, shown in FIG. 30 to provide the geo-processing powerand infrastructure to process the data and render geo-visualizations ofthe data in a user interface. The GDMS 100 of FIG. 30 can be implementedin a combination of a server computer system 102, one and/or more clientcomputer systems 104, and various data sources 106, 108, and 110. GDMSdata can be saved in the GDMS server system 102 and/or in a datastore106, 108, and 110 at a local and/or remote location. The data sources106 and 108 are depicted as local to the server system 102, whereas thedata source 110 is depicted as coupled remotely to the server system 102via a communications network 112. GDMS data can also be cached in aproxy server.

The client system 104 can be coupled remotely to the server system 102via a communication network 114 (or alternatively, the samecommunications network 112), although a local connection between theclient system 104 and the server system 102 can be employed. It shouldbe understood that multiple client systems can be coupled with theserver system 102 concurrently. It should also be understood that theclient system 104 and server system 102 can be implemented in anintegrated system. The network connection 114, such as an Internetconnection, can be used by GDMS client systems 104 to access the data(e.g., data defining layers and/or providing financial information,chemical concentrations, test results, project state reports, etc.) atthe remote data sources 106, 108, 110, directly and/or through anintermediate computing system (e.g., a proxy server and/or GDMS server).

The client computer 104 can be coupled to an intermediate server, suchas a proxy server 118. The proxy server 118 can be positioned betweenthe client computer 104 and the server system 102. The proxy server 118intercepts all requests to the server system 102 to see if it canfulfill the requests itself with cached data from prior requests. Ifnot, the proxy server 118 forwards the request to the server system 102to be fulfilled. The proxy server 204 can also be coupled to thecommunications network 114 and accessed by the client computer 104 andthe server system 102 via the network 114. Firewalls 116 can also beimplemented between the server system 102 and the client computer 104and the network 114 for an added layer of security.

The connection can be established as a secure connection between theclient system 104 and the server 102 and/or the remote data sources 106,108 and 110. The secure connection can be accomplished by a variety ofdifferent methods including, but not limited to, authentication codesand passwords, secure user management tools, firewalls, userauthentication, secure user management tools, user pathway mappingand/or encryption, etc. In another example, the server system 102 caninclude an administrative website that can allow authorized users andmembers to manipulate and assign user rights (e.g., an administrativetier). The server system 102 can also include a security feature, forexample, an access control module 136 to establish, control, and monitoraccess by client computers 104 to certain data stored within and/oraccessible within the GDMS 100. Access control can be governed by anadministrator and/or it can be an automated function of the accesscontrol module 136 based upon attributes of the data requested andpermissions held by the user as further described below.

The server system 102 can represent one and/or more hardware andsoftware servers providing multiple server functions. In addition, oneand/or more of the server system 102, the client system 104, and thedatabases 106, 108 and 110 can form an N-tier system. The server system102 can also include a web server application subsystem, whereby WorldWide Web-enabled applications can provide various aspects offunctionality of the GDMS 100. For example, the server system 102 canprovide a website where content creators and/or generators can uploadgeospatially-related data that can be transformed into featuresreferenced to locations within a map of the GDMS 100 for access throughthe client system 104 connected to the GDMS 100 for geo-visualization ofthe information. In an alternative implementation, the client system 104can be implemented as a “thick” client and execute client-installedsoftware for some and/or all of the functionality of the GDMS 100.

A monitor 120, coupled to the client system 104, presents a GDMSinterface 122 constructed from data and functionality received throughthe server system 102. When a user is working within a GDMS 100, s/he issaid to be in a GDMS session. The GDMS interface 122 can be generated bya GDMS application executing on the client system 104 and/oralternatively through a server-executed GDMS application that providesthe interface components over the network to a dumb terminal and/or abrowser application running on the client system 104. The GDMS interface122 can be a geospatial browser window including a map 124 (e.g., aglobe in this illustration), a geo-visualization of data as a layer 126and individual features 128 on the map 124, a layer manager 130 forselecting data and other features from the databases 106, 108, 110. TheGDMS view can also include tool palettes 132 and 134, which can bedistinct features of the browser interface, browser plug-ins, and/orseparate utilities and/or applications.

In one implementation, the GDMS interface 122 can be in the form of ageospatial browser window and one and/or more geospatially-referencedtools. Access to the data and/or functionality is provided bygeospatially-referenced tools (e.g., tool palettes 132 and 134) that areassociated with and triggered in relation to a specific location in acommon coordinate system (e.g., WGS84 and/or some other sharedcoordinate system) shared by the tools and the geospatial browser. Forexample, a tool can provide chemical analysis results pertaining to soilsamples taken from the location over time. In another example, a toolcan retrieve and analyze financial data pertaining to a constructionproject on a specified region on the map (e.g., a location). The dataavailable to such tools is provided from a variety of data sources andassociated with each location within the common coordinate system of theGDMS system 100, such as through specified coordinates (e.g., longitudeand latitude), other geographic constraints, and/or organizationalconstraints (e.g., a project identifier of a project having a specificgeographic location and/or constraint, a feature identifier of a featurehaving a specific geographic location and/or constraint, etc.). In thismanner, the user can view a location through the geospatial browser andaccess data and/or functionality associated with a location that isaccessible through the tools in the browser. These locations can be thesame location and/or distinct locations.

FIG. 31 further illustrates an example of a GDMS 200 for accessingspecific data and/or information within a database based on theassociation of the information with geospatial coordinates. Again, theGDMS 200 can be implemented by a GM and/or GIS server system 202 incommunication with a GM and/or GIS client computer 204 over acommunication network 208, e.g., the Internet. The GM and/or GIS clientcomputer 204 can be used to access information in a decision managementdatastore (DMD) 206 connected with the GM and/or GIS server system 202.The communication network 208 ideally provides the GM and/or GIS clientcomputer 204 with high-speed access to indexed data on the DMD 206.

The GM and/or GIS server system 202 can also include a security feature,for example, an access control module 222 to establish, control, andmonitor access by GM and/or GIS client computers 204 to certain datastored within and/or accessible via the DMD 206. Access control can begoverned by an administrator and/or it can be an automated functionbased upon attributes of the data requested and permissions held by theuser as further described below

The data retrieved from the DMD 206 can be presented in a user interface210, 216, 222, 224 (of which four exemplary configurations are presentedin FIG. 31 at the GM and/or GIS client computer 204. A feature presentedin the user interface 210 (e.g., a geospatial coordinate and/orgeographic location) on the client computer 204 can be used to accessinformation indexed by features using the DMD 206.

The GM and/or GIS client computer 204 can access the indexed data in theDMD 206 by using applications and/or plug-ins, such as technicalinterfaces 210, 216 and management interfaces 222, 224. The technicalinterfaces 210, 216 can be used to access technical data associated withparticular features. In exemplary implementations such technical datamight be biochemical, geochemical, hydro-geological, and/or otherphysical data on analytes. The management interfaces 118, 120 can beused to access business management data. In exemplary implementationssuch management data might be business and organizational documents anddata associated with particular features. Several examples of the use ofsuch tools to interface with the DMD 206 and extract the data arepresented below.

As shown in the first technical interface 210 in FIG. 31, if the GMand/or GIS client computer 204 requests information about a particularfeature, such as a ground water well located near an airport 212, the GMand/or GIS client computer 204 can select the feature 214, i.e., theground water well, to receive information related to that feature 214.The first technical interface 210 can include a concentric area datatool that can provide technical data related to the ground water wellfeature 214, for example, latitude and longitude, physical inspectiondata, water level information, and water contamination information, in athe form of information windows and visual geographic informationoverlays on a base location map. In an alternate implementation shown inthe second technical interface 216, technical data concerning an area ofland 220 around, adjacent, and/or near the airport 218 at the locationof the feature 214, for example, landscaping, slope, soil composition,and/or grading information can be presented.

In a further implementation shown in a first management interface 222, acontract management concentric data tool can provide management databased upon the selected feature 214, for example, information onconstruction and/or work in progress, zoning and/or easementinformation, and/or information on any contracts applicable to thefeature 214. In a further implementation shown in a second managementinterface 224, a finance management concentric data tool 120 can alsoprovide management data relating to financial information applying tothe feature 214 selected, for example, costs of past repairs and/orcurrent maintenance fees. In some implementations the managementinterfaces 222, 224 can further comprise a real-time link to a videocamera providing a view of the selected feature 214 and any constructionand/or activity occurring at the selected feature 214.

The GDMS shown in FIGS. 32 and 33 is an innovative, GM and/or GIS-basedmanagement decision support tool that optimizes the geo-processing andgeo-visualization of available GM and/or GIS data, for example, naturalresources, building resources, time-management resources, personnelresources, financial resources, and information resources, and others.The GDMS can enable a GM and/or GIS client to easily visualize andinterpret large, multifaceted, and complex information sets in order tomake comparative analyses of alternatives, identify potentialliabilities and opportunities, and optimize program strategies.

The GDMS provides full convergence, and/or integration, of multiple(essentially limitless) disparate data sets within a single virtualthree-dimensional (geospatial) model. The disparate data sets, and evensub-data sets within them, can be organized by association with relevantfeatures on the model. For example, groundwater analytical data can beassociated with a given groundwater well; building data can beassociated with a given building; installation information can beassociated with the installation; and command information can beassociated with the command. The GDMS full data convergence allows datato be accessed relative to position, scale, resolution, time, and othergeospatial attributes and serves as an extremely intuitive and efficientway to organize and access essentially limitless quantities ofinformation.

The GDMS allows queries, filters, and comparisons of data to becompleted at the GM and/or GIS server system and then visuallyrepresented in three dimensions in near real time at the GM and/or GISclient device. The three-dimensional representation of data helps usersand members gain a better understanding of the meaning contained withinthe data more rapidly than using traditional tabular and/ortwo-dimensional representations of data. The GDMS thus allows themeaning represented in the three-dimensional data to be rapidlycommunicated to users and members.

The GDMS improves on traditional closed and/or organization-specific GMand/or GIS by affording live connections to multiple databases. As thedatabases are updated, the representations afforded by GDMS can thus becurrent. This allows a fourth dimension, time, to be factored intoresource management decisions. Time is an important additional datafactor because previous “views” of the data can be compared to current“views” of the data, in order to gain an understanding of the rates ofchange (or dynamics) of the real system. In other words, the GDMS allowsfor differences between time states to be understood and factored into adecision process.

In FIG. 30 a GDMS 100 can be used to provide access to specific sectionswithin documents, which are associated with a particular geographiccoordinate, e.g., Products, Goods & Services-GeographicMapping-Company/Local Information-Social Networking (PSR-GM-C/L-SN)information. More specifically, a GDMS 100 user (or GM and/or GISclient) can select a specific location and/or ‘feature’ on a map and bedirected to Products, Goods & Services-Geographic Mapping-Company/LocalInformation-Social Networking (PSR-GM-C/L&SC-SN) information, e.g.,information and/or documents, as well as entire sets of informationand/or documents themselves associated with a promotion, online coupons,mobile services, Products, Goods or Services, entertainment shopping,penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliateadvertising or services, service providers, business centers andaffiliates for related company and/or local information, includingsocially conscious information, which contain data and/or informationrelevant to that specific ‘feature’ and/or location selected. Saidanother way, specific relevant data can be provided to a user based uponthe ‘feature’ selected, not just based upon a traditional search query.Thus, GDMS 100 links and/or ties a ‘feature,’ and/or specific geographiclocation, to an indexed database of data. Examples of documents that canhave a geospatial associated, but are not amenable to layeredgeo-visualization can include one and/or more components of Products,Goods & Services-Geographic Mapping-Company/Local Information-SocialNetworking (PSR-GM-C/L&SC-SN) information, e.g., but not limited to,promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services,entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising or services, productinformation, socially conscious information about companies, theirproducts, goods & services, local cities and/or communities, and/or thelike, e.g., real estate contracts concerning a particular property,title records, covenants, plats, zoning regulations, construction plans,and others. The specific relevant data provided to a user can compriseonly portions and/or sections of documents, maps, and/or images relatedto that specific ‘feature’ selected. This can greatly increaseefficiency of GM and/or GIS by taking a user directly to a relevantsection of a document, which can be hundreds and/or thousands of pagesin length.

The GDMS speeds the process of bringing discordant stakeholder groups toconsensus by providing real-time and highly comprehensible (due to thevisual output) answers to questions offered in meetings and/or anynetworking and/or social networking methods, systems and/or resources.Moreover, the technology introduced in the GDMS yields truly optimalsolutions to highly complex and nonlinear physical problems usingreasonable computational times and resources, including associatingcompany, local and product and/or service information, comprising socialconscious information, data, and other resources. The modular design ofGDMS permits coupling to virtually any simulation code. The GDMS canalso be linked to and implemented within user-friendly andwidely-accepted graphical user interfaces (GUIs) including web browserapplications.

As should be apparent from the above discussion, the GDMS is a powerfultool that can be used to access enormous quantities of data stored atremote locations. When using the GDMS, control access to data stored atremote locations, for example, an access control module 222 as depictedin FIG. 31 can be implemented. An administrator of the data stored atthe remote location to have server-side control over varying levels ofaccess to data. Thus, in some implementations, access control can beexercised on the server-side; however, in other implementations thislevel of access control can be exercised on the client side. Further,access control can also be exercised at/by a given database. It can alsobe desirable to have different levels of authorization to control dataaccess for employees having different roles within an organization. Forexample, a higher level officer, such as a supervisor and/or general,can have unlimited access to classified data, while entry-levelemployees can only have access to non-classified data. These levels ofauthorization can be created and adjusted by an administrator to permitvarying levels of access to the data. The GDMS can specificallyestablish different levels of access to the data can be controlled foreach individual and/or can be controlled in groups (e.g.,hierarchically) by the administrator and can be created and maintainedusing operations implemented within the access control module 222.

The varying levels of accessibility to data can be controlled using anumber of different methods including, but not limited to,authentication codes and passwords, secure user management tools,firewalls, user authentication, user pathway mapping, and/or encryption.The levels of access control to the data can also be controlled by thecreation of an individual profile for each user identifying the user'srole in the organization and specifying their level of access to thedata. Then, when a user logs onto a system, their level of access todata can be known by the system and the user can then only be able toview and/or access data that was commensurate with their level ofauthorization.

The layers of data can also be saved so that other authorized users andmembers can access the saved layers to view and make additional changesto (or comments on) the layers and then save those additional changes.This allows a given user to open the selected state, make changes,alterations, and comments, and save this new altered state for reviewand potential further modification by others. Certain GDMS view statedata and/or functionality can and/or can not be accessible to and/or beeditable by a user based upon access permissions that have been grantedto and/or withheld from the user.

In one implementation, access to the different map tiles and/or layersof data can be based upon the scale and/or resolution of the map and/orlayer, i.e., access is ‘scale-driven.’ The contextual and/or ‘smart’layers of data can be turned on and/or off by an administrator basedupon the authorization to access each layer of data. A user's ability tochange and/or alter the layers of data can also be dependent upon theirlevel of authorization.

With reference now to FIG. 32, an exemplary GDMS 300 is implemented in aserver system 302 with a DMD 306 as described above. The server system302 can further include additional data servers, for example, a map tileserver 310 indexed by coordinates, reference number, and/or feature; oneand/or more layer servers 312 that provide feature and layer informationalso indexed by reference to geospatial coordinates, tile referencenumber, and/or feature; and a document server 314 that can provideProduct/Service/Retail-Geographic Mapping-Company/LocalInformation-Social Networking (PSR-GM-C/L&SC-SN) information, and/orother documents and information associated with a geospatial location(again indexed by coordinate, reference number, and/or feature) in aformat not amenable to geo-visualization. As shown in FIG. 32, the dataservers 310, 312, 314 can be connected to the DMD 306 and/or to oneanother to maximize operating efficiency of the datastore 306. In someimplementations, the data servers 310, 312, 314 and the datastore 306can be located within the same server system 302, while in otherimplementations, the data servers 310, 312, 314 and the datastore 306can be distributed across a network.

The server system 302 can further comprise a workflow module 316 and anaccess control module 318 through one and/or a number of different typesof software programs (i.e., programming logic and/or computer executableinstructions) utilizing a variety of different types of measures tocontrol access to the DMD 306. The workflow module 316 and the accesscontrol module 318 can be positioned between the client computer 304 andthe DMD 306, as shown in FIG. 32, to provide a layer of access controlbetween the client device 304 and the DMD 306 and/or the data servers310, 312, 314. In other implementations, the access control module 318and workflow module 316 can be partially and/or substantiallyimplemented in other locations, for example, on the client device 304,and/or within the communications network 308.

In one implementation of the GDMS 300, as shown in FIG. 32, the accesscontrol module 318 and workflow module 316 can be separate from the DMD306 and the servers 310, 312, 314. In other implementations, the accesscontrol module 318 and 310, 312, 314. The access control module 318 andworkflow module 316, DMD 306, and data servers 310, 312, 314 are shownas separate components in FIG. 32 for simplicity of illustration, butcan all be combined into one server system 302, system datastore, and/ornetwork.

The access control module 318 and workflow module 316 can be operativelyassociated and can control access to different layers of data via theDMD 306 to facilitate control over what users and members can accessthrough the DMD 306. The access control module 318 and workflow module316 can work in concert to provide a security control function thatgrants and/or denies a user access to map tiles, information, documents,features, applications, resolution, elevation views, aerial extentviews, and/or system access based on the users and membersidentification. This also allows the DMD 306 to provide only theinformation, documents, features, and applications that are authorizedand relevant to a given user, which can provide workflow efficiencies.

By streamlining user workflow, the availability of information andapplications can be assigned by appropriate and relevant scale and/orresolution intervals. In this construct, application icons andinformation layers can appear and disappear based on the scale and/orresolution presented to the user within the system at any given point intime. This streamlines tasks by eliminating those information andapplication choices that are not relevant at a certain scale (and hencerepresent clutter) and by allowing more efficient navigation to theinformation and application choices that remain, i.e., those that arerelevant at a given scale.

The workflow module 316 is a tool, which can also lead users and membersthough data sets by progressively ‘walking’ a user through design stepsusing interactive design tools, which can traverse more than one layerof data. The workflow module 316 can be particularly helpful for noviceusers and members as they attempt to navigate through the vast amountsof data accessible via the DMD 306. In one exemplary implementation, thefeatures and functionality of the workflow module 316 can be turned onand off based upon the scale and/or resolution that a user attempts toaccess. In this embodiment, the workflow module 316 can operate bycorrelating the resolution and/or magnification of the geo-visualizationdata to conform to a user's level of authorization, thus controllingwhich users and members are able to view the most detailed and/or securedata.

The workflow module 316 can allow a system administrator to createwithin the DMD 306 different levels and/or groups of levels of access tothe data for each individual within an organization. In thisimplementation, each individual within an organization can be given anindividual profile. The individual profile can include information suchas their role and/or security clearance within an organization. Theindividual profiles can be stored on a database coupled to, and/orintegral with, the DMD 306. The profiles and/or lists of users andmembers can contain information on the level of information, and/ordata, that each user is permitted to view. This individual profile canbe accessed by the workflow module 316 and/or access control module 318when individuals attempt to access data through the DMD 306 to permitthe individual to have only a pre-determined level of access to data.When individuals attempt to access the DMD 306, their individualidentities can be linked to their profile such that their access to theDMD 306 can be referenced and/or validated before they are permitted toaccess the DMD 306.

The workflow module 316 and access control module 318 can also allowsystem administrator of the DMD 306 to create and edit different levelsof access to data for individuals and/or groups within an organization.For example, in the military, all individuals having equivalent rankand/or security clearance can have the same amount of access to the datawithin the datastore 306. Thus, the limited access is applied uniformlyto the entire group of individuals, such that all of the individuals inthe group have the same level of access to the data. This can bereferred to as ‘hierarchical access control’ because groups and/orindividuals can be grouped together for purposes of determiningserver-side access control levels.

Alternately, in an implementation of the GDMS 300 in an open and/orpublic platform, rather than a system internal to and/or controlled by aparticular organization, access to data can be controlled based merelyupon geospatial attributes, for example, the geospatial location(coordinates) of a tile request, scale of a tile request, resolution ofa tile request, payment for access, the combination of layers requested,and/or freshness and/or staleness of data requested. Another example ofa geospatial attribute can be the ability to download a geospatialdataset as opposed to merely having the ability to view ageo-visualization of such data, e.g., as a layer and/or set of features,e.g., Product, Goods & Services Geographic Mapping-Company/LocalInformation-Social Networking (PSR-GM-C/L&SC-SN) information. A furtherexample of a geospatial attribute can be the ability to save and/orbookmarks geo-visualization states defines by various combinations ofunderlying mar tiles and overlying layers and features for easilyreturning to such states as opposed to having to recreate the samefilter query to return to a prior state. In such a public platform,contributors of GM and/or GIS data accessible for geo-visualization canplace limits and/or restrictions on the availability of and/oraccessibility of the GM and/or GIS data. A public implementation of theworkflow module 316 can be used as an interface for data sources toeither upload data to the DMD 306 and/or otherwise register data withthe DMD 306 so that the DMD 306 can locate and access the data from aremote server and/or data store managed by the data source.

In order to place access restrictions on data, the data source can usethe workflow module 316 to tag and/or otherwise encode an entire datasetand/or portions of the dataset with restriction instructions associatedwith one and/or more geospatial attributes. In one implementation, theworkflow module 316 can provide tools to tag datasets, for example,using extensible mark-up language (XML) to indicate the presence andnature of a restriction tied to a particular map tile, data layer,and/or feature. In an alternate embodiment, a data source can encode adataset itself as long as the tags are in a language and format that theDMD 306 understands.

As depicted in FIG. 32, the access control module 318 can be understoodas composed of a number of functional sub-modules for implementing apublic platform with controlled access to GM and/or GIS data. Suchsub-modules can include, for example, a bounding box restriction module320, a scale determination module 322, a layer comparison module 324, anauthorization module 326, a temporal determination module 328, and apayment processing module 330. Each of these modules can provideseparate functionality, but often can operate in conjunction with eachother to make an access control determination as further describedbelow. It can be desirable to control access to data for a variety ofreasons, for example, to generate revenue for a particular data source.

The bounding box restriction module 320 within the access control module318 can be used to provide a gross initial screening to determinewhether a tile request by a user falls within the range of a boundingbox that is entirely off-limits for presentation without a passwordand/or certificate due to proprietary and/or security concerns. Thebounding box restriction module 320 monitors all tile requests for GMand/or GIS data to determine whether any of the requested tiles fallswithin a restricted bounding box. The bounding box can be alsounderstood as defining a collection of records in a GM and/or GISdatabase that have geospatial coordinate fields associated with the datawith values falling within the range of the bounding box. An additionalfield in the data records can indicate whether there is a restrictionplaced on the data record and the nature of the restriction.

If a requested tile is restricted, then the bounding box restrictionmodule 320 can interface with the DMD 306 and instruct that therequested GM and/or GIS data and/or the tiles thereof that fall withinthe bounding box be withheld from delivery by the DMD 306 to the client304. However, this access restriction can be overridden if the requestorcan provide a valid password and/or certificate as further discussedbelow. The functions provided by the bounding box restriction module 320can be used by the other modules within the access control module 318 inorder to identify the geographic boundaries of a map tile request and/ordata layer.

The scale determination module 322 can be used to control access to databased upon the scale and resolution of the GM and/or GIS data requested.The term “scale” is used herein in the cartographic sense, e.g., 1 cm: 1km (1 cm of the image presented on the screen corresponds to 1 km inreal terms), whereas “resolution” refers to the sharpness of the imagefile available for presentation on the screen (e.g., the number ofpixels and/or dots per inch in a raster image). A large scale, e.g., 1:1generally will correspond to an image of high resolution whereas a smallscale, e.g., 1:100,000 will generally correspond to an image of lowresolution as there is a limited ability of a presentation screen topresent a very high resolution at a small scale—there is physically noroom. In the context of access control, it can be perfectly acceptableto provide map tiles of a particular coordinate area at a scale of 1 cm:100 m at a relatively coarse resolution (e.g., 60 dpi), but it can beunacceptable to provide a larger scale (e.g., 1 cm: 1 m) at a highresolution (e.g., 300 dpi), and/or at any resolution at all, e.g.,because that combination of scale and resolution has a premium value andis coded as inaccessible without payment of a fee.

The scale determination module 322 monitors requests for GM and/or GISdata having a scale and/or resolution attribute. If there is a scaleand/or resolution change requested, the scale determination module 322can interface with the DMD 306 and request that the GM and/or GIS databe held for screening by the scale determination module 322 to determinewhether the requested GM and/or GIS data has a scale and/or resolutionrestriction, and/or a combination thereof, and the nature of therestriction.

The layer comparison module 324 can be used to control access to databased upon the types and combinations of data layers of the GM and/orGIS data requested for overlay on a map. For example, it can beperfectly acceptable to provide a geo-visualization of a data layershowing locations of Products, Goods & Services-GeographicMapping-Company/Local Information-Social Networking (PSR-GM-C/L&SC-SN)information. In a further implementation, the layer comparison module324 can be configured to save identifying information of a user making alayer combination request associated with interaction relating to oneand/or more Products, Goods & Services-Geographic Mapping-Company/LocalInformation-Social Networking (PSR-GM-C/L&SC-SN) information.

In each of the examples of geospatial attribute-driven access controlpresented above, it is noted that request denials of map tiles and/ordata layers can be overridden by the provision of a valid certificateand/or password. The authorization module 326 provides an opportunityfor requestors to enter a password, certificate, and/or otheridentification sufficient to overcome a denial of presentation of arequested map region, data layer, and/or feature. In such a case, if arequester enters the appropriate password and/or presents an appropriatecertificate, the authorization module 326 can direct the DMD 306 toaccess and present the requested GM and/or GIS data.

Another exemplary function of the access control module 318 can beembodied in the temporal determination module 328 that allows and/ordenies access to map tiles and/or layers based upon the age of theinformation comprising the particular dataset, e.g. Products, Goods &Services-Geographic Mapping-Company/Local Information-Social Networking(PSR-GM-C/L&SC-SN) information. In an example, data that issignificantly older can develop additional value again for use intemporal studies to identify trends. In such a case, the data can againonly be accessible upon payment of a fee for the service. The temporaldetermination module 328 manages the temporal worth of GM and/or GISdata, for example, by examining time stamps associated with particularGM and/or GIS datasets and comparing the timestamps to any tags that canbe encoded with the data indicating that the GM and/or GIS dataset issubject to a fee for service within particular ranges of age.

A further exemplary function of the access control module 318 can be theacceptance of payment for access to GM and/or GIS datasets through thepayment processing module 330. Upon receipt of a request for a GM and/orGIS dataset, the payment processing module 330 can query the relevantdatastore to determine whether the dataset is subject to a fee forservice, for example membership, registration, and/or subscription forwebsite access for providing coupons and/or discounts and associatedcompany, local information, including socially conscious information,such as Product, Goods & Services-Geographic Mapping-Company/LocalInformation-Social Networking (PSR-GM-C/L&SC-SN) information. If so, thepayment processing module 330 can instruct the DMD 306 to withholddelivery of a dataset to a requestor until payment is made. In analternate implementation, the payment processing module 330 can maintaina schedule of fees charged by each contributor for particular datasetsand compare incoming dataset requests with the schedule to determinewhether a fee is required to access the data and instruct the DMD 306accordingly. In another implementation, upon payment of a fee for accessto a restricted dataset, the payment processing module 330 can issue apassword and/or certification to the requester who would then presentthe password/certificate to the authorization module 326 to seek accessto the dataset through that component. The payment processing module 330can actually accept and process access payments from requesters, and/orit can interface with a third party payment processing service (e.g.,PayPal™) to actually process fund transfers.

FIG. 33 depicts an exemplary set of access control operations 400 thatcan be performed according to one implementation of an access controlmodule within a GDMS. Initially the access control module receives atile request in a receiving operation 402 associated with one and/ormore Products, Goods & Services-Geographic Mapping-Company/LocalInformation-Social Networking (PSR-GM-C/L&SC-SN) information. It shouldbe understood that any request from a client device for GM and/or GISdata, e.g., Products, Goods & Services-Geographic Mapping-Company/LocalInformation-Social Networking (PSR-GM-C/L&SC-SN) information be it aparticular map and/or a dataset for a layer and/or a feature and/or evena document, will necessarily be associated with one and/or more maptiles. In order to present a geo-visualization interface, all of thedata can have a reference to particular geospatial coordinates, whichcan optionally broken down in units of map tiles.

Once a tile request is received, the access control module can nextidentify a bounding box containing all the tiles in the tile request inidentification operation 404. Creation of a bounding box allows theaccess control module to easily determine whether access is restrictedto presentation of any of the map tiles requested. In a comparisonoperation 406, the access control module can simply compare whether anyof the entire region of the bounding box intersects with a geospatialattribute that can be subject to a presentation restriction. Recall thatthere can be any number of geospatial attributes that can be designatedas having restriction requirements, for example, the geospatial location(coordinates) of a tile request itself, the scale of the tile request,resolution of a tile request, an angle of view (e.g., plan, aerial,street level, etc.), payment for access, the combination of layersrequested, and/or the freshness and/or staleness of data requested. Ifthere are no geospatial attribute restrictions associated with any ofthe tiles in the bounding box, the process 400 can approve all of thetiles and instruct the DMD to send the particular map tiles, layerdataset, features, and/or other information in sending operation 408.

If the access control module recognizes that there is a restrictionassociated with one and/or more of the tiles in the bounding box, theaccess control module can next determine what kind of geospatialattribute is implicated in the bounding box restriction in checkingoperation 410. The access control module can then invoke one and/or moreof the sub-modules described above for further processing assistance.The appropriate sub-module(s) can first determine whether an actualrestriction must be imposed on the data request pursuant to thegeospatial attribute in determination operation 412. This operationdetermines whether the requested a value of the geospatial datasetand/or feature actually conflicts with the restriction set by the datacontributor. For example, the tile request at a resolution valuerestricted by the data contributor without additional authorizationand/or payment and the tile would be considered actually restricted.Alternatively, if the tile request is at a resolution value within theallowable bounds set by the contributor, then the attribute of therequest would not be considered restricted and the tiles and/orassociated data would be approved for presentation in sending operation408.

If the geospatial attribute associated with the tile request is found tobe “set high,” then the access control module will request that someform of authentication be presented by the requester before the data arereleased for presentation in requesting operation 414. Responses to therequesting operation are then examined in determination operation 416 todetermine what information should be provided relating to Products,Goods & Services-Geographic Mapping-Company/Local Information-SocialNetworking (PSR-GM-C/L&SC-SN) information. Similarly, if the GM and/orGIS dataset is a premium service requiring additional payment, uponpayment by the requester the access control module can approve therequest and the tile are sent in sending operation 408. If a requestercannot provide the appropriate password and/or certification, and/orchooses not to pay for a premium service, then the access controllerwill deny the tile request in denying operation 418. The GDMS can eitherinform the requester that the request has been denied and/oralternatively return a GM and/or GIS data set as responsive as possibleto the request, but without providing the restricted information.

Some implementations described herein can be implemented as logicalsteps in one and/or more computer systems. The logical operations of thedescribed systems, apparatus, and methods are implemented (1) as asequence of processor-implemented steps executing in one and/or morecomputer systems and (2) as interconnected machine modules within oneand/or more computer systems. The implementation is a matter of choice,dependent on the performance requirements of the computer systemimplementing the described system, apparatus, and method. Accordingly,the logical operations making up the implementations of the systems,apparatus, and methods described herein are referred to variously asoperations, steps, objects, and/or modules.

In some implementations, articles of manufacture are provided ascomputer program products that cause the instantiation of operations ona computer system to implement the invention. One implementation of acomputer program product provides a computer program storage mediumreadable by a computer system and encoding a computer program. Anotherimplementation of a computer program product can be provided in acomputer data signal embodied in a carrier wave by a computing systemand encoding the computer program.

An exemplary computer system 500 for implementing the file origindetermination processes above is depicted in FIG. 34. The computersystem 500 can be a computer server with internal processing and memorycomponents as well as interface components for connection with externalinput, output, storage, network, and other types of peripheral devices.Internal components of the computer system in FIG. 34 are shown withinthe dashed line and external components are shown outside of the dashedline. Components that can be internal and/or external are shownstraddling the dashed line. Alternatively to a server, the computersystem 500 can be in the form of any of a personal computer (PC), anotebook and/or portable computer, a tablet PC, a handheld media player(e.g., an MP3 player), a smart phone device, a video gaming device, aset top box, a workstation, a mainframe computer, a distributedcomputer, an Internet appliance, and/or other computer devices, and/orcombinations thereof.

The computer system 500 includes a processor 502 and a system memory 506connected by a system bus 504 that also operatively couples varioussystem components. There can be one and/or more processors 502, e.g., asingle central processing unit (CPU), and/or a plurality of processingunits, commonly referred to as a parallel processing environment. Thesystem bus 504 can be any of several types of bus structures including amemory bus and/or memory controller, a peripheral bus, aswitched-fabric, point-to-point connection, and a local bus using any ofa variety of bus architectures. The system memory 506 includes read onlymemory (ROM) 508 and random access memory (RAM) 510. A basicinput/output system (BIOS) 512, containing the basic routines that helpto transfer information between elements within the computer system 500,such as during start-up, is stored in ROM 508. A cache 514 can be setaside in RAM 510 to provide a high speed memory store for frequentlyaccessed data.

A hard disk drive interface 516 can be connected with the system bus 504to provide read and write access to a data storage device, e.g., a harddisk drive 518, for nonvolatile storage of applications, files, anddata. A number of program modules and other data can be stored on thehard disk 518, including an operating system 520, one and/or moreapplication programs 522, other program modules 524, and data files 526.In an exemplary implementation, the hard disk drive 518 can furtherstore access control module 564 for restricting access to map and datafiles and the decision management datastore 566 for housing and managingGM and/or GIS databases according to the exemplary processes describedherein above. Note that the hard disk drive 518 can be either aninternal component and/or an external component of the computer system500 as indicated by the hard disk drive 518 straddling the dashed linein FIG. 37. In some configurations, there can be both an internal and anexternal hard disk drive 518.

The computer system 500 can further include a magnetic disk drive 530for reading from and/or writing to a removable magnetic disk 532, tape,and/or other magnetic media. The magnetic disk drive 530 can beconnected with the system bus 504 via a magnetic drive interface 528 toprovide read and write access to the magnetic disk drive 530 initiatedby other components and/or applications within the computer system 500.The magnetic disk drive 530 and the associated computer-readable mediacan be used to provide nonvolatile storage of computer-readableinstructions, data structures, program modules, and other data for thecomputer system 500.

The computer system 500 can additionally include an optical disk drive536 for reading from and/or writing to a removable optical disk 538 suchas a CD ROM and/or other optical media. The optical disk drive 536 canbe connected with the system bus 504 via an optical drive interface 534to provide read and write access to the optical disk drive 536 initiatedby other components and/or applications within the computer system 500.The optical disk drive 530 and the associated computer-readable opticalmedia can be used to provide nonvolatile storage of computer-readableinstructions, data structures, program modules, and other data for thecomputer system 500.

A display device 542, e.g., a monitor, a television, and/or a projector,and/or other type of presentation device can also be connected to thesystem bus 504 via an interface, such as a video adapter 540 and/orvideo card. Similarly, audio devices, for example, external speakersand/or a microphone (not shown), can be connected to the system bus 504through an audio card and/or other audio interface (not shown).

In addition to the monitor 542, the computer system 500 can includeother peripheral input and output devices, which are often connected tothe processor 502 and memory 506 through the serial port interface 544that is coupled to the system bus 506. Input and output devices can alsoand/or alternately be connected with the system bus 504 by otherinterfaces, for example, a universal serial bus (USB), a parallel port,and/or a game port. A user can enter commands and information into thecomputer system 500 through various input devices including, forexample, a keyboard 546 and pointing device 548, for example, a mouse.Other input devices (not shown) can include, for example, a microphone,a joystick, a game pad, a tablet, a touch screen device, a satellitedish, a scanner, a facsimile machine, and a digital camera, and adigital video camera. Other output devices can include, for example, aprinter 550, a plotter, a photocopier, a photo printer, a facsimilemachine, and a press (the latter not shown). In some implementations,several of these input and output devices can be combined into a singledevice, for example, a printer/scanner/fax/photocopier. It should alsobe appreciated that other types of computer-readable media andassociated drives for storing data, for example, magnetic cassettesand/or flash memory drives, can be accessed by the computer system 500via the serial port interface 544 (e.g., USB) and/or similar portinterface.

The computer system 500 can operate in a networked environment usinglogical connections through a network interface 552 coupled with thesystem bus 504 to communicate with one and/or more remote devices. Thelogical connections depicted in FIG. 34 include a local-area network(LAN) 554 and a wide-area network (WAN) 560. Such networkingenvironments are commonplace in home networks, office networks,enterprise-wide computer networks, and intranets. These logicalconnections can be achieved by a communication device coupled to and/orintegral with the computer system 500. As depicted in FIG. 34, the LAN554 can use a router 556 and/or hub, either wired and/or wireless,internal and/or external, to connect with remote devices, e.g., a remotecomputer 558, similarly connected on the LAN 554. The remote computer558 can be a PC client, a server, a peer device, and/or other commonnetwork node, and typically includes many and/or all of the elementsdescribed above relative to the computer system 500.

To connect with a WAN 560, the computer system 500 typically includes amodem 562 for establishing communications over the WAN 560. Typicallythe WAN 560 can be the Internet. However, in some instances the WAN 560can be a large private network spread among multiple locations. Themodem 562 can be a telephone modem, a high speed modem (e.g., a digitalsubscriber line (DSL) modem), a cable modem, and/or similar type ofcommunications device. The modem 562, which can be internal and/orexternal, is connected to the system bus 518 via the network interface552. In alternate embodiments the modem 562 can be connected via theserial port interface 544. It should be appreciated that the networkconnections shown are exemplary and other means of and communicationsdevices for establishing a communications link between the computersystem and other devices and/or networks can be used. Connection of thecomputer system 500 with a WAN 560 allows the decision managementdatastore 566 the ability to access remote GM and/or GIS datastores toprovide for a distributed GM and/or GIS platform.

All directional references (e.g., proximal, distal, upper, lower,upward, downward, left, right, lateral, front, back, top, bottom, above,below, vertical, horizontal, clockwise, and counterclockwise) are onlyused for identification purposes to aid the readers understanding of thepresent invention, and do not create limitations, particularly as to theposition, orientation, and/or use of the invention. Connectionreferences (e.g., attached, coupled, connected, and joined) are to beconstrued broadly and can include intermediate members between acollection of elements and relative movement between elements unlessotherwise indicated. As such, connection references do not necessarilyinfer that two elements are directly connected and in fixed relation toeach other. The exemplary drawings are for purposes of illustration onlyand the dimensions, positions, order and relative sizes reflected in thedrawings attached hereto can vary.

As presented in FIG. 35, The present invention provides in one aspect adelivery system for a geospatial website for a multidimensionalrepresentation of information and/or scalable versions of web and mobiledevice content for an infrastructure and global platform that providesusers and members and businesses of all types and sizes with access tobroad markets for the delivery of promotions, online coupons, mobileservices, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, pennyauctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising orservices from merchants and sellers from around the world for such itemsas: e-commerce, media and entertainment, sports, personal & financialnetwork, travel & hospitality services, real estate, educationalservices, ancillary services, advertisers, service providers, socialnetworking, online dating, gaming, retail stores, virtual communitiesand virtual goods end user's online activity, location, onlinecommunications, search inquiries, social networking, social networkingcommunities, social plugins, promotions, social applications,entertainment shopping, bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results,advertisements, purchasing, behavior, buying patterns and other criteriafor collection and analysis used to provide customized promotionalwebsite displays of promotions, online coupons, mobile services,Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions oronline auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising or servicesfrom merchants and sellers from around the world, service providers andrelated company and local information using three-dimensional andscalable geospatial mapping. (collectively referred to as “Products,Goods & Services” as any product or service or subgroup thereof) throughcombined Products, Goods and Service with GeospatialMapping/Company-Local Information/Social Networking/Communities(“PGS-GM-CL/I-SN”) on a three dimensional geospatial platform usinggeospatial mapping technology.

FIG. 36 presents a flow chart showing a typical transaction for thepurchase a Social Earth online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goodsand Service, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising or services from merchants andsellers from around the world that provides a portion of the saleproceeds will be allocated to microloans or microcredit, humanitarianaid and support other worldly causes through charitable donations. “ViewSocial Earth promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products,Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or onlineauctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising or services frommerchants and sellers from around the world, retail stores, virtualcommunities and virtual goods and information about microloans ormicrocredit, humanitarian aid and support other worldly causes throughcharitable donations from around the world by geo-target location oranywhere in the world on the present inventions unique “live view” ofthe planet.”

POTENTIAL ASPECTS OR ELEMENTS OF THE CLAIMED INVENTION THAT CAN BEOPTIONALLY EXCLUDED OR NEGATIVELY CLAIMED. The present invention canalso in particular claimed embodiments exclude or negatively claim oneor more aspect of the following list, e.g., to more particularly reciteor exclude embodiments or elements that might occur in cited or otherpublished art. Accordingly, the present invention can optionallyexclude, not include, or not provide, one of more, or any combinationof, promotion, online coupons, mobile services, entertainment shopping,penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliateadvertising or services for such items as e-commerce, media andentertainment, sports, personal & financial network, real estate,educational services, ancillary services, advertisements, serviceproviders, social networking, social networking communities, socialnetworking activities, social plugins, promotions, social applications,entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising or services, social networking,social networking communities, messaging, online communications, userprofiles, viewing public & private user profiles, online dating, gaming,and/retail stores, virtual communities and virtual goods and informationabout microloans or microcredit, humanitarian aid and support otherworldly causes through charitable donations or sustainable gifts, e.g.,but not limited to, various types of real estate (e.g. vacant land,residential, commercial, recreational, retail, shopping malls, hotels,motels, golf courses, resorts, marinas, industrial, vacation, timeshares, condominiums, multifamily, and other types of real estate etc.),travel & hospitality services, educational services, ancillary services,(e.g. brokers, agents, relocation services, internet marketing,concierge, transportation, entertainment, lenders, appraisers,education, developers, contractors, inspectors, homeimprovements/remodeling, basement designs, landscaping, home warranties,insurance, indoor & outdoor furniture, fixtures, windows, siding,roofing, heating/cooling, solar, plumbing, electrical, mechanical, andadditional services etc.) and providing other services such as loans andquotes, auto loans, mortgages, banking services, family fun, sports,restaurants, events, consumer packaged goods, groceries, apparel,beverages, books & magazines, foods, health care, household, office,personal care, pet care, photography, autos, business, classic carparts, restoration and maintenance services, collectibles & art, customcar parts, restoration and maintenance services, deals & giftseducation, electronics, fashion, financial, healthcare, home, outdoor &décor, travel & hospitality services, insurance, online services, otherlegal, marketing, medical facilities, medical insurance, medicalretailers, motors, pets, physicians, dentists, other practioners, publicservices, psychics, mediums & spiritual advisors, travel & hospitality,real estate, ancillary services, sports, travel, tourism, wedding,parties & media and entertainment, online dating, and the like. Thepresent invention can also exclude one or more of the following: (1)finding social awareness of companies found in patent searches; (2)showing entities such as companies on maps; (3) finding local travel &hospitality, real estate, educational services & ancillary serviceproviders and other types of service providers on map searches; (4)ranking entities found using geospatial mapping; (5) representingobjects (e.g., brand or logo or product) of entities on a geospatialmap; (6) providing local comparative shopping information to members ona website; and/or (7) modeling user views to include objects (brand,logo, or product) of entities in local environment.

Although various embodiments of this invention have been described abovewith a certain degree of particularity, and/or with reference to oneand/or more individual embodiments, those skilled in the art could makenumerous alterations to the disclosed embodiments without departing fromthe spirit and/or scope of this invention. And while the subject matterhas been described in language specific to structural features and/ormethodological arts, it is to be understood that the subject matterdefined in the appended claims is not necessarily limited to thespecific features and/or acts descried above. Rather, the specificfeatures and acts described above are disclosed as example forms ofimplementing the claimed subject matter. It is intended that all mattercontained in the above description and/or shown in the accompanyingdrawings shall be interpreted as illustrative only and not limiting.Changes in detail and/or structure can be made without departing fromthe basic elements of the invention as defined in the following claims.

EXAMPLES Exemplary Implementation of Non-Limiting Embodiments of thePresent Invention

The following example is shown by way of example and is not intended tolimit the scope of the present invention in any way.

Example 1 Social Earth, Inc.: Description of Present Invention Example

The present invention in a non-limiting embodiment called SOCIAL EARTH™provides, in one aspect, for an infrastructure and global platform thatprovides users and members and businesses of all types with access tobroad markets for the delivery of Social Earth promotions, onlinecoupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services, entertainmentshopping, penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements andaffiliate advertising or services from merchants and sellers from aroundthe world to its highly-engaged Social Shoppers via its unique live viewof the planet. The site includes links to places and events, data on thelandscape, interactive 360 panoramas, fly-through shopping tours withstunning 3D imagery and videos, advertising on the landscape, advancedsearch for private and public information, social networkingintegration, self-posting for uploading user generated content, customtools, apps, widgets and other embodiments. SOCIAL EARTH™ will includeSocial Earth Mobile allowing Social Shoppers to receive Social EarthMobile Coupons for Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping,penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliateadvertising or services based upon their precise location. Mobile appsfor smart phones (Android and tablets, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad) areprovided that will allow Social Shoppers to receive Social Earth Mobileproducts, services, or retail based upon their precise location or othercriteria, such as shopping or interest preferences. With Social EarthMobile, Social Shoppers can explore the same 3D imagery and terrain asthe desktop version. Fly to your current location or just about anywherein the world with the touch of a button. Pan, zoom, and tilt your viewas you travel around the globe. Search for cities, places and businessesaround the world. View layers of geographic information and more. Theinvention provides opportunities to reach people at the point ofshopping—a benefit both to shoppers and merchants. What do you get whenyou combine a global marketplace with buyers and sellers and promotions,online coupons, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping,penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliateadvertising or services from merchants and sellers from around theworld, including without limitation, for such items as products,services, e-commerce, media and entertainment, sports, personal &financial network, real estate, educational services, ancillaryservices, advertisements, service providers, social networking, onlinedating, gaming, retail stores, virtual communities and virtual goods andinformation about microloans or microcredit, humanitarian aid andsupport other worldly causes through charitable donations or sustainablegifts, the social media revolution and the power of geo-mappingtechnology? You get a cutting-edge online experience that blends thebest of online shopping and social networking and takes it to astratospheric new height called SOCIAL EARTH™.

Unlike any other shopping site, when Social Earth site subscriberscalled Social Shoppers (OR SE SHOPPERS), visit the Social Earth website,e.g., at www.socialearth.co, they are invited to travel virtually aroundthe globe in search of promotions, online coupons, mobile services,Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions oronline auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising or servicesfrom merchants and sellers from around the world. This one-of-a-kindwebsite aggregates promotions, online coupons, mobile services,Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions oronline auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising or servicesfrom merchants and sellers from around the world (collectively referredto as “Social Earth Shopping”) and showcases them in their actual,physical location on the websites through GPS technology and unique“live view” of Earth. As Social Shoppers shop the world for coupons,products, goods & services, they can view Social Earth Shopping frommajor brands for promotions, online coupons, mobile services Products,Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or onlineauctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising or services frommerchants and sellers from around the world for such items as: products,goods & services, service providers, media and entertainment, sports,personal & financial network, travel & hospitality services, realestate, educational services, ancillary services, advertisements,service providers, social networking, online dating, gaming, retailstores, virtual communities and virtual goods and information aboutmicroloans or microcredit, humanitarian aid and support other worldlycauses through charitable donations or sustainable gifts, e.g., but notlimited to, online auctions, various types of real estate (e.g. vacantland, residential, commercial, recreational, retail, shopping malls,hotels, motels, golf courses, resorts, marinas, industrial, vacation,time shares, condominiums, multifamily, and other types of real estateetc.), educational services, ancillary services, loans and quotes, autoloans, mortgages, banking services, and/or any other product or service,e.g., but not limited to, family fun, sports, restaurants, events andhundreds of top consumer packaged goods brands for groceries, apparel,beverages, books & magazines, foods, health care, household, office,personal care, pet care, photography and other embodiments.

Social Shoppers will find great promotions, online coupons, mobileservices, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, pennyauctions, or online auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertisingor services from merchants and sellers from the leading travel &hospitality industry, restaurants, toy and entertainment companies andtop retailers around the world. Social Shoppers can select a targetlocation in the U.S., e.g., but not limited to, Atlanta, Austin, Dallas,Denver, San Diego, San Francisco or in other cities around the world.Social Shoppers can find product or services deals in London or they cantour the planet at will, jumping from Hong Kong to Amsterdam to BuenosAires to check out the bargains. Because the Earth view comes live fromsatellite and webcam images, shoppers can zoom in for a closer look orzoom out to gain perspective on the location.

SOCIAL EARTH™ will offer advertising opportunities for serviceproviders, business centers, affiliates and business owners e.g. forbusiness services, healthcare services, specialty financial services,consumer products, specialty retail and media and entertainment,lenders, mortgage companies, auto finance companies and other businessowners' who want to reach millions of users and members online on SocialEarth. Advertisements will appear at the top of consumers' property andservice provider search results ahead of other properties meeting theirsearch criteria. Realtors, mortgage lending, auto finance, financialservices, healthcare, travel & hospitality services, cars, insurance,online education, government services, media and entertainment andsports industry, travel industry, top internet advertisers, socialbrands and thousands of service providers, business owners andaffiliates will have the ability to purchase advertising space, whichwill appear at the top of consumers' property and service providersearch results ahead of other properties meeting their search criteria.Consumers can learn about neighborhoods, property values, schools,shopping centers, and cost of living features and join with thousands ofservice providers and business owners from around the world. Our goal isto help consumers conveniently connect with thousands of serviceproviders and business owners to find what they're looking for in ourSocial Earth Personal Network.

SOCIAL EARTH™ will also provide links and free real estate informationand mortgage quotes from national lenders and mortgage companies for thepurchase of a new home, refinance, consolidating debt, auto loans,insurance quotes or home equity loans. The SOCIAL EARTH™ database willinclude links to millions of residential listings, commercial propertiesand thousands of service providers and business owners. Millions ofusers and members will search online and align with thousands of serviceproviders and business owners in search of everything from “A” to “Z”whether its buying a home or a new or used car, finding an apartment ora medical professional or healthcare provider, booking travel, weatherupdates, breaking news, reading about your favorite celebrity orentertainer or sports' team, SOCIAL EARTH™ has it all.

The Company's website will populate the virtual landscape with varioustypes of real estate (e.g. vacant land, residential, commercial,recreational, retail, shopping malls, hotels, motels, golf courses,resorts, marinas, industrial, vacation, time shares, condominiums,multifamily, and other types of real estate, etc.), travel & hospitalityservices, educational services, ancillary services (e.g. brokers,agents, relocation services, internet marketing, concierge,transportation, hospitality, lenders, appraisers, education, developers,contractors, inspectors, home improvements/remodeling, basement designs,landscaping, home warranties, insurance, indoor & outdoor furniture,fixtures, windows, siding, roofing, heating/cooling, solar, plumbing,electrical, mechanical, and additional etc.), advertisements fromservice providers and various links from the desired search request.Consumers can zoom in and out of the Social Earth Personal Network,click on advertisements and links and see the exact location of abusiness, retailer, restaurant or shopping mall on the landscape.Advertisements will appear at the top of the consumers' property andservice provider search results. Home buyers and renters can learn aboutneighborhoods, property values, apartments, schools, shopping centers,cost of living and connect with thousands of real estate professionals,educational services, ancillary services and other service providers andbusiness owners from around the world. The SOCIAL EARTH™ PersonalNetwork will allow consumers too easily and conveniently search for allof their personal and financial services from the comfort of their home.The future of searching for all of your personal and financial needs viathe Internet is here with the development of a SOCIAL EARTH™ PersonalNetwork.

SOCIAL EARTH™ displays, organizes and delivers information across manysocial layers and social media sites featuring top-notch content,stunning satellite imagery, aerial photography and graphic animatedcolor overlays on top of Google Earth™. SOCIAL EARTH™ delivers adelightful mash-up of content, Social Earth Shopping and live socialnetworking feeds from, e.g., Twitter™. Social Earth™ utilizes the topsocial networking platforms such as Facebook™ and Twitter™ to allowSocial Shoppers to share the latest product or services deals with theirfriends. Unlike Groupon™, Livingsocial™ or Google Offers™, SOCIAL EARTH™aggregates Social Earth Shopping on its site. Social Shoppers areencouraged to share these product or services deals with their friendsin Facebook™ and Twitter™. The global sharing capabilities are builtinto SOCIAL EARTH™ technology using sophisticated technology integratinggeospatial mapping, layering location-relevant data, and GPStechnologies.

Social Shoppers are able to find great products or services in theirlocal areas or just about anywhere else in the world with the click of amouse or input on their mobile device. Capitalizing on the popularity ofsocial networking giants such as Facebook™ and Twitter™ with more than750 million users worldwide, SOCIAL EARTH™ creates an online communitythat taps into the power of social networking by integrating live socialfeeds from these social networking giants directly into its website. Bycreating a highly engaged social networking community, Social Earthcreates “stickiness,” keeping the Social Shoppers on the site for longperiods of time, as well as bringing them back again and again. In otherwords, SOCIAL EARTH™ provides long-time customer loyalty, not just aone-off deal.

Social Earth™ also provides microloans or microcredit and donates aportion of each “Social Earth online coupon, mobile services, Products,Goods or Services” that are sold on Social Earth will be allocated tomicroloans or microcredit, humanitarian aid or other worldly cause orsustainable gift to help those in need. The community aspect of SOCIALEARTH™ is the driver behind building awareness of the website and itsfeatured promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods &Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising or services from merchants andsellers from around the world. Existing and potential customers provideadvertising by spreading the word to their friends about the greatproduct or services deals they have found on a shopping site such asSOCIAL EARTH™. Add to that the power of collective buying and its easyto see how the SOCIAL EARTH™ community can leverage group size inexchange for larger discounts. Social Earth delivers promotions, onlinecoupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services, entertainmentshopping, penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements andaffiliate advertising or services from merchants and sellers from aroundthe world to its Social Shoppers via its unique live view of the Earththat includes links to places and events, data on the landscape,interactive 360 panoramas, fly-through shopping tours with stunning 3Dimagery. The use of geospatial mapping for associating information tospecific places can included, but it not limited to, one or more of:Live links to places and events; Data on the landscape; Zoom tobirds-eye and human scale views; 3D custom audio/visual content;Interactive 360 panoramas; Fly-through tours with content, narration,music; Stunning imagery and videos; 3D buildings and landscapinge-commerce and mobile banking tools and hooks; Advertising on thelandscape; Advanced search for private and public information; Socialnetworking integration; Self-posting for uploading user generatedcontent; Custom tools, apps and widgets; and the like. SOCIAL EARTH™Mobile sends mobile coupons to Social Shoppers based upon their preciselocation. This provides opportunities to reach people at the point ofshopping—a benefit both to shoppers and merchants.

Social Layers. Social Shoppers virtually travel around the globe insearch of shopping products or services, as well as bargains. SocialEarths technology will drive content, promotions, online coupons, mobileservices, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, pennyauctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising orservices from merchants and sellers from around the world into a“virtual Earth” based upon their precise location and GPS technology.Social Shoppers will be able to view Social Earth™ Shopping from aroundthe world by geo-target location, their hometown or another city aroundthe world and virtually travel there. This one-of-a-kind websiteaggregates Social Earth™ Shopping from around the world and showcasethem in their actual, physical location on the virtual Earth. Becausethe virtual Earth is “interactive,” one can zoom in for a more detailedview or zoom out to gain perspective on where they are in the world.Social Earth™ Shopping can last for days, weeks or even months. Whatmakes Social Earths website different from other group buying websitesis that Social Earth's™ website allows Social Shoppers to search forpromotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services,entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions, as well asadvertisements and affiliate advertising or services from merchants andsellers from around the world on a virtual Earth. Users will be able tocustomize their buying preferences, engage in social networking, socialnetworking communities, social networking activities and supportworthwhile causes. Social Earth's™ website allows Social Shoppers toselect from a menu of coupons based upon their preferences, which isintegrated into the virtual Earth along with other layerlocation-relevant data as Social Shoppers shop online and interact withtheir friends on Facebook™ and Twitter™. Advertisers and merchants willsend coupons to Social Shoppers based on geo-target location.

Social Earth™ develops layer applications, which are known as “sociallayers.” These social layers allow Social Shoppers to customize theirpersonal experience on SOCIAL EARTH™ as they search for Social Earth™Shopping in their local area or just about anywhere else in the worldbased upon their interests or travels take them. Social Shoppers selectfrom a menu of “Purchase” coupon categories such as. (Arts &Entertainment, Travel, Giving Back, Eat & Drink, Deal of the Day) and“Free” coupon categories such as: (Health & Beauty, Sports, Shopping,Groceries). Social Shoppers may be able to search for other products andservices such as: Autos, Business, Classic Car Parts, Restoration andMaintenance Services, Collectibles & Art, Custom Car Parts, Restorationand Maintenance Services, Deals & Gifts, Education, Electronics,Fashion, Financial, Healthcare, Home, Outdoor & Décor, Travel &Hospitality Services, Insurance, Online Services, Other Legal,Marketing, Medical Facilities, Medical Insurance, Medical Retailers,Motors, Pets Physicians, Dentists, Other Practioners, Public Services,Psychics, Intuitives, Metaphysical, Mediums & Spiritual Advisors, RealEstate, Educational Services, Ancillary Services, Sports, Tourism,Wedding, Parties & Entertainment, Online Dating and Free Coupons).Social Earth™ drives traffic to its website by targeting Social EarthShopping from around the world, based upon a users and memberspreference, which are displayed on a unique “live view” of planet Earth.Once a Social Shopper selects one or more coupon categories,entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising or services from merchants andsellers from around the world will populate the virtual Earth. SocialShoppers are able to double click on Social Earth Shopping and flydirectly to its location on Earth. Social Shoppers can also click on oneof the featured cities and take a tour of London, San Francisco orDenver and zoom down to street level to take a closer look. SocialShoppers enjoy the experience of virtually traveling around the world,zooming in and out to street level in search for great product orservices deals and sharing the latest product, goods or services, pennyauction or online auction with their friends.

In connection with a one-of-a-kind geospatial website aggregates SocialEarth™ Shopping from around the world and showcases them in theiractual, physical location on the websites unique live view of Earth. AsSocial Shoppers shop the world for bargains, they can view Social EarthShopping from major brands for family fun, sports, restaurants, eventsand hundreds of top consumer packaged goods brands for groceries,apparel, beverages, books & magazines, foods, health care, household,office, personal care, pet care, photography and other embodiments.Social Shoppers can find great products, goods or services deals fromthe leading travel & hospitality industry, restaurants, toy andentertainment companies and top retailers around the world. SocialShoppers can use “a mobile device payment method and system foreffectuating an online payment through a computer or mobile deviceequipped carrier or a mobile device equipped bank using a mobile usersand members device in connection with e-commerce and mobile bankingtransactions on the host geospatial website or mobile device (e.g.,mobile telephone, PDA, laptop computer, etc.); wherein users and memberscreate and maintain a rich-media application via a geospatial mappingplatform via the Internet comprising: mobile banking and electronicpayments.

The delivery system for a host geospatial website (accessible via amobile device or computer) will provide for a multidimensionalrepresentation of information and scalable version of web content forthe delivery of Social Earth™ Shopping from around the world on a threedimensional geospatial platform using geospatial mapping technology. Ahost geospatial website will include realistic virtual landscape usingsatellite and aerial photography that will include many content layersof web based information, e-commerce and mobile banking links, socialnetworking and virtual advertisements for a richer user experience. Ahost geospatial website shall store images, web-based content, socialdata, social plugins, social applications, penny auctions or onlineauctions, advertisements and share live social feeds from socialnetworking giants such as Facebook™ and Twitter™ and othercommunications in real-time. Connecting Social Earth Shopping fromaround the world with users and members known as “Social Shoppers” inreal-time on a geographical area across multiple social layers that aredisplayed as graphic animated color overlays on a three dimensionalgeospatial platform using geospatial mapping technology. Morespecifically, it relates to a method for users and members known as“Social Shoppers” to effectuate banking and electronic payments;accessing a user account, engaging in mobile social activities andviewing available options via a three dimensional geospatial mappingplatform using geospatial mapping technology.”

Giving Back: Social Shoppers will be able to help those who have beenimpacted by a natural disaster, live in impoverished conditions or areless fortunate in the world. Social Shoppers are able to purchasecoupons from merchants who support humanitarian causes in developingcountries and charities in their communities and local and global causesaround our planet and relief efforts for natural and man made disastersincluding devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. For example, fly toJapan and view a video on the Japan relief effort. By tapping into thepower of social networking and bringing together a collectiveconsciousness with millions of Social Shoppers, Social Earth raisesawareness for global issues and millions of dollars for microloans ormicrocredit, humanitarian aid and support other worldly causes.

Example 2 Further Description of Social Earth Example

What do you get when you combine the daily deal phenomenon, the socialmedia revolution and the power of geo-mapping technology? You get acutting-edge online experience that blends the best of daily dealsharing and social networking and takes it to a stratospheric new heightcalled SOCIAL EARTH™ that also gives back to our planet.

Unlike any other shopping site, the Social Earth™ website will allowmembers to virtually travel around the globe in search of the bestbargains, promotions, daily deal coupons, mobile services, Products,Goods & Services, entertainment shopping including penny auctions oronline auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising or servicesfrom merchants and sellers from around the world! In addition, memberswill be able to interact with their friends in Facebook™, Twitter™ andSkype™. This one-of-a-kind social networking website that will includesocial networking, advertisements, daily deal coupons, Products, Goods &Services showcasing them in their actual, physical location on theplanet. Users will need to download a Google Earth™ plug-in before theywill be able to virtually travel around Social Earth™. As of October2011, Google Earth™ has been downloaded more than one billion times.

Social Shoppers will be able to select their favorite cities and choosefrom a menu of “Purchase Coupons” categories such as (Arts &Entertainment, Travel, Giving Back, Eat & Drink, Deal of the Day).Social Earth™ will offer “Free Coupons” categories for such items as:(Health & Beauty, Sports, Shopping & Groceries). As Social Shoppers maketheir selections, advertisements, daily deal coupons, Products, Goods &Services, including penny auctions or online auctions will populate the3D globe based upon their preferences and geo-target location. Memberswill also be able to search for service providers in their local area orjust about anywhere in the world. Click on any one of the featured Cityicons on Social Earth™ and virtually fly there to that city in aninstant. This global shopping site is going to take the Internet bystorm with its innovative 3D platform.

Social Earth™ plans to leverage Facebook™, Twitter™ and other platformsto build brand awareness and engagement by integrating “live socialfeeds” from these social networking giants in its website. SocialShoppers will also be able to “talk live” on Skype™. Social Earth™ isall about finding great bargains for savvy Social Shoppers and sharingthem with your friends and feeling good knowing that a portion of eachsale on Social Earth's™ website will go to provide microloans ormicrocredit, humanitarian aid and support other worldly causes throughcharitable donations or sustainable gifts to help those in need aroundthe world.

Social Shoppers will be able to find great deals around the planet, andlocally and globally, from leading brands, services providers, and topretailers. Social Shoppers will be able to select any desired geo-targetlocation and zoom into the local landscape and view some of the bestshopping in cosmopolitan cities. Because the Earth view comes live fromsatellite and webcam images, Social Shoppers will be able to zoom in andout for a closer look and gain a perspective on their precise location.Social Earth's™ website will feature top-notch content, stunningsatellite imagery, aerial photography and graphic animated coloroverlays on top of Google Earth™ that will give Social Shoppers awonderful perspective of our planet.¹ SOCIAL EARTH™ will deliver adelightful mash-up of advertisements, coupons, Products, Goods &Services and service providers on a geospatial platform.

Unlike Groupon™, Livingsocial™ or Google Offers™, SOCIAL EARTH™ willaggregate coupons and Products, Goods & Services from all over the worldon its site daily, but they won't last just one day. SOCIAL EARTH™ dealscan last for days, weeks or even months. Social Shoppers will beencouraged to share these deals with their friends. The global sharingcapabilities will be built into SOCIAL EARTH's™ technology usingsophisticated technology integrating geospatial mapping, web mapping,mobile mapping & layers of geographic information, layeringlocation-relevant data and GPS technologies to pin point coupons andgreat bargains in their exact geo-target location on Earth.

Social Networking Community

The Company plans on capitalizing on the popularity of social networkinggiants Facebook™ and Twitter™, with a combined 900 million usersworldwide, and leveraging the power of these social networking giants bylaunching an application to users in Facebook™ and Twitter™. On averagepeople on Facebook™ install applications more than 20 million times perday. More than 350 million active users currently use Facebook™ throughtheir mobile devices. The Company plans on integrating “live socialfeeds” from Facebook™ and Twitter™ into its website so Social Shopperswill be able to share their favorite deals with their friends in thesepopular social networks. By creating a highly engaged social networkingcommunity, the Company plans on creating “stickiness” that will keepSocial Shoppers on the site for long periods of time interacting withtheir friends, as well as bringing them back again and again. In otherwords, SOCIAL EARTH™ will be about long-time customer loyalty, not justa one-off deal.

The social networking community aspect of SOCIAL EARTH™ will be thedriver behind building awareness of the website and its featured deals.Imagine a business model where existing and potential customers do theadvertising for you by spreading the word to their friends about thegreat deals they've found on a shopping site such as SOCIAL EARTH™. Addto that the power of collective buying and it's easy to see how theSOCIAL EARTH™ social networking community will be able to leverage groupsize in exchange for larger discounts.

Products, Goods & Services Description

Social Earth™ includes and delivers a user-friendly smooth desktopinterface and mobile app for smart phones that allows Social Shoppers toenjoy a unique experience utilizing a multitude of Products, Goods &Services as they virtually tour around SOCIAL EARTH. They are able to:Use SOCIAL EARTH after installing Google Earth™ or similar plug-in; Viewpromotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services,entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising or services from merchants andsellers from around the world by geo-target location using GPStechnology or anywhere in the world on SOCIAL EARTH's unique “live view”of the planet; View links to places and events, data on the landscape,interactive 360 panoramas, fly-through shopping tours with stunning 3Dimagery and videos, advanced search for private and public information,user generated content, custom tools, apps, widgets. Search for thelatest deals on Social Earth via the web or a mobile or portable device,which will open up an incredible opportunity to reach people at thepoint of shopping—a benefit both to shoppers and merchants; Searchonline for service providers; View “live social feeds” from socialnetworking giants Facebook™ and Twitter™; Communicate with their friendson Skype; Zoom to birds-eye and human scale view and navigate aroundstunning 3D satellite images; Watch videos and news clips via RSS links;Have a unique interactive user experience, view live links to places andevents; Learn how Social Earth plans to give back by providinginformation about microloans or microcredit, humanitarian aid andsupporting other worldly causes through charitable donations orsustainable gifts.

Further non limiting examples of how the delivery system and software ofthe invention is interactive with the social shopper based upon thesocial shopper's preference, location, GPS, buying patterns, likes &dislikes, user profile, online communications, social networking, socialnetworking communities, social networking activities, messaging, onlinecommunications, viewing public & private user profiles, advertising,bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results, purchasing, behavior, buyingpattern and other criteria allowing the social behavior software tosearch for and filter and display related promotions, online coupons,mobile services, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shoppingpenny auctions or online auctions, or advertisements and affiliateadvertising or services from merchants and sellers on the 3D landscape.So when a social shopper searches for promotions, online coupons, mobileservices, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, pennyauctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising orservices on Social Earth, the social behavior software will keep trackof online activity, location, online communications, search inquiries,social networking, social networking communities, social networkingactivities, messaging, viewing public & private profiles, advertising,bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results, social plugins, promotions,social applications, purchasing, behavior, buying patterns and othercriteria and search for, filter and display related promotions, onlinecoupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services, entertainmentshopping, penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements andaffiliate advertising or services from merchants and sellers on the 3Dlandscape based upon the desired location, GPS technology, behaviortracking, which can even predict future demand.

Each user's will have a unique experience on Social Earth based upontheir online activity, location, online communications, searchinquiries, social networking, social networking communities, socialnetworking activities, messaging, viewing public & private userprofiles, advertising, bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results,social plugins, promotions, social applications, buying preference,location and other criteria. So if someone is searching for a particularpromotion, online coupon, mobile service, Product, Good or Service,entertainment shopping, penny auction or online auctions, advertisementand affiliate advertising or service on Social Earth, the socialbehavior software will track their online activity, location, onlinecommunications, search inquiries, social networking, social networkingcommunities, social networking activities, messaging, viewing public &private user profiles, advertising, bidding, bidding, bidding behavior,bidding results, social plugins, promotions, social applications,purchasing, behavior, buying patterns and other criteria and filter anddisplay related promotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products,Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or onlineauctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising or services frommerchants and sellers on the 3D landscape based upon the desiredlocation, GPS technology, behavior tracking, which can even predictfuture buying demand.

For example, if someone is searching for a sporting event or other typeof entertainment on Social Earth and the social shopper previouslypurchased a coupon for a pizza, the social behavior software will locatenearby pizza restaurants, sporting events, sports venues, sports bars,hotels, and other points of interest etc. based upon the onlineactivity, location, online communications, search inquiries, socialnetworking, social networking communities, social networking activities,messaging, viewing public & private user profiles, advertising, bidding,bidding behavior, bidding results, social plugins, promotions, socialapplications, purchasing, behavior, buying patterns and other criteriaand filter and display related coupons, products, goods, services,advertisements and service providers on the 3D landscape based upon thedesired location, GPS technology, behavior tracking, which can evenpredict future shopping.

If someone is searching for a new or used car, motorcycle, recreational,RV or other type of motorized vehicle or transportation on Social Earth,the software will search for related services based upon GPS such asi.e. dealerships, manufacturers, insurance, tires, oil change, car wash,air conditioning, gas stations, etc. based upon the online activity,location, online communications, search inquiries, social networking,social networking communities, social networking activities, messaging,viewing public & private user profiles, advertising, bidding, biddingbehavior, bidding results, social plugins, promotions, socialapplications, purchasing, behavior, buying patterns and other criteriaand filter and display related promotions, online coupons, mobileservices, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, pennyauctions, or online auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertisingor services from merchants and sellers on the 3D landscape based uponthe desired location, GPS technology, behavior social software tracking,which can even predict future shopping.

If the social shopper has previously purchased a coupon for pet food,the social behavior software will keep track of online activity,location, online communications, search inquiries, social networking,social networking communities, social networking activities, messaging,viewing public & private user profiles, advertising, bidding, biddingbehavior, bidding results, social plugins, promotions socialapplications, purchasing, behavior, buying patterns and other criteriaand filter and display related promotions, online coupons, mobileservices, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, pennyauctions or online auction, advertisements and affiliate advertising orservices, pet stores, veterinarians, grooming services, advertisementsand other related pet services on the 3D landscape based upon thedesired location, GPS technology, behavior tracking, which can evenpredict future shopping demand.

If someone is searching for a home, condo, apartment or other type ofreal estate on Social Earth, the social behavior software will trackonline activity, location, online communications, search inquiries,social networking, social networking communities, social networkingactivities, messaging, viewing public & private user profiles,advertising, bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results, social plugins,promotions, social applications, bidding, bidding behavior, biddingresults, purchasing, behavior, buying patterns and other criteria andfilter and display related promotions online coupons, mobile servicesProducts, Goods or Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions oronline auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising or servicesfrom i.e. brokers, agents, relocation services, lenders, moving andstorage, furniture, lawn care or gardening, grocery stores, schools,doctors & physicians, parks, cleaning services, etc. on the 3Dlandscape, based upon the desired location, GPS technology, behaviortracking, which can even predict future buying demand.

If someone is searching for a school, college, university or other typeof educational services on Social Earth, the social behavior softwarewill track online activity, location, online communications, searchinquiries, social networking, social networking communities socialnetworking activities, messaging, viewing public & private userprofiles, advertising, bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results,social plugins, promotions, social applications, purchasing, behavior,buying patterns and other criteria and filter and display relatedpromotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods orServices, entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising or services for such items asi.e. online classes, student loans, financial aid, colleges,universities, private and public schools, tutoring, test preparation,etc. on the 3D landscape based upon the desired location, GPStechnology, behavior tracking, which can even predict future buyingdemand.

If someone is searching for a particular travel destination on SocialEarth, the social behavior software will track online activity,location, online communications, search inquiries, social networking,social networking communities, social networking activities, messaging,viewing public & private user profiles, advertising, bidding, biddingbehavior, bidding results, social plugins, promotions, socialapplications, purchasing, behavior, buying patterns and other criteriaand filter and display related promotions, online coupons, mobileservices, Products, Goods or Services, entertainment shopping, pennyauctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliate advertising orservices from merchants and sellers for such items as i.e. travel deals,airfare or ground transportation options, restaurants, sport venues,entertainment, airports, car rentals, limos, dry cleaners and otherservices, etc. on the 3D landscape based upon the desired location, GPStechnology, behavior tracking, which can even predict future buyingdemand.

If someone is searching for an environmental-friendly or green producton Social Earth, the social behavior software will track onlineactivity, location, online communications, search inquiries, socialnetworking, social networking communications, social networkingactivities, messaging, viewing public & private user profiles,advertising, bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results, social plugins,promotions, social applications, purchasing, behavior, buying patternsand other criteria and filter and display related promotions, onlinecoupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services, entertainmentshopping, penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements andaffiliate advertising services for such as items as i.e. eco-friendlyhome, office and business products that reduce the carbon footprint,made from recycled materials and do little harm to the environment, etc.on the 3D landscape based upon the desired location, GPS technology,behavior tracking, which can search criteria, social shopper's buyingpreferences, buying patters, likes and dislikes, online communications,transaction history, etc. and even predict future buying demand.

If someone is searching for a flight comparison on Social Earth byclicking on one of the travel links i.e. Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz,Cheap Flights, Kayak, etc., the social behavior software will trackonline activity, location, online communications, search inquiries,social networking, social networking communities, social networkingactivities, messaging, viewing public & private user profiles,advertising, bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results, social plugins,social promotions, applications, purchasing, behavior and buyingpatterns and other criteria and filter and display related promotions,online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods or Services,entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising or services for such servicesas fights, hotels, car rentals, restaurants, food & drink, entertainmentand other related services on the 3D landscape based upon the desiredlocation, GPS technology, behavior tracking, which can even predictfuture buying demand.

If someone is searching for a penny auction or online auction on SocialEarth, the social behavior software will track online activity,location, online communications, search inquiries, social networking,social networking communities, social networking activities, messaging,viewing public & private user profiles, advertising, bidding, biddingbehavior, bidding results, social plugins, promotions, socialapplications, purchasing, behavior and buying patterns and othercriteria and filter and display related promotions, online coupons,mobile services, Products, Goods or Services, entertainment shopping,penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements and affiliateadvertising or services on the 3D landscape based upon the desiredlocation, GPS technology, behavior tracking, which can even predictfuture buying demand.

Advantages: SOCIAL EARTH's unique shopping experience on a live view ofthe planet offers multiple advantages over other e-tail, daily deal,coupon and social networking sites by: Aggregating promotions, onlinecoupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services, entertainmentshopping, penny auctions or online auctions, advertisements andaffiliate advertising or services on its site daily, but they won't lastjust one day; Combining the power of a social networking community witha collective bargaining coupon site, currently the fastest growingbusiness model on the Web; SOCIAL EARTH is going to help those in needaround the world; Behavior tracking technology, Gathering promotions,online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services,entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising services from merchants andsellers from all over the world into one fun online 3D shoppingexperience; Social Shoppers will be able to search for a multitude ofpromotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services,entertainment shopping, penny auctions or online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising or services from merchants andsellers based upon their precise location; Social networking integrationwith Facebook™ and Twitter™ will create “stickiness” and bring SocialShoppers back to the site again and again; Social Earth will beavailable in multiple languages to attract users outside of the UnitedStates and around the world; Giving Social Shoppers a fun, hipinteractive experience on a live view of Earth with satellite imagery,aerial photography and graphic animated color overlays; and/or Having aunique interactive user experience, view live links to places andevents.

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A method for providing social networking interactions using internetand mobile websites and related mobile device or computer systems thatprovide end user customized interactive displays of three dimensionalgeospatial maps comprising end user customized promotions, onlinecoupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services, and relatedcompany and local information, said first and second end user displaysgenerated using a three dimensional geospatial platform usingmulti-dimensional and scalable geospatial mapping, said methodcomprising: (a) electronically assigning on a computer system anidentifier to a client mobile device or computer receiving a requestfrom said end user via a client application operating on said clientmobile device or computer system for internet access to websites orlinks; (b) electronically providing on a mobile device or computersystem access to said websites or links that provide three dimensionalgeospatial interactive displays including showing movement from onelocation to another, said mobile device or computer system comprising acombination of first consumer data sets used to generate first end usergeospatial interactive displays using multi-dimensional and scalablegeospatial mapping and integrated social networking, social networkingcommunities, social networking activities, user profiles, messaging,online communications, said first end user geospatial interactivedisplays comprising (i) first promotional data collections for separatelocations shown on said displays, said first promotional datacollections comprising (a) promotions, (b) online coupons, (c) mobileservices, (d) products, (e) goods, (f) services, (g) entertainmentshopping, (h) penny and online auctions, (i) bidding, (j) biddingbehavior, (k) bidding results, (l) advertisements and affiliateadvertising, (m) social networking, (n) social networking communities,(o) social networking activities, (p) user profiles, (q) messaging, (r)online communications, (s) viewing public & private user profiles, (t)service providers, (u) business centers and affiliates, (v) relatedcompany information; and (w) local information; and (ii) interactivelinks to social networks, social networking, social networkingcommunities, social networking activities, user profiles, messaging,online communications, viewing public & private user profiles, socialplugins, promotions, social applications, entertainment shopping, pennyand online auctions, bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results,advertisements and affiliate advertising; and (iii) interactive links towebsites displaying said promotions, online coupons, mobile services,Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny and onlineauctions, bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results, advertisements andaffiliate advertising, social networking, social networking communities,social networking activities, messaging online communications and searchinquiries for service providers, business centers and affiliates, andrelated company information and related local information; (c)electronically displaying on said client computer said first end usergeospatial interactive display provided in step (b); (d) electronicallymonitoring, collecting and analyzing, using a mobile device or computersystem data analysis system, said end user data relating to end user's(i) online activity, (ii) location, (iii) online communications, (iv)social networking plugins (v) search inquiries, (vi) social networking,(vii) social networking communities, (viii) social networkingactivities, (ix) user profiles, (x) messaging, (xi) viewing public &private user profiles, (xii) social plugins, (xiii) social applications,(xiv) entertainment shopping, (xv) penny and online auctions, (xvi)bidding, (xvii) bidding behavior, (xviii) bidding results, (xix)advertisements and affiliate advertising, (xx) purchasing, (xxi)behavior, (xxii) preferences, (xxiii) IM, text and email messaging; and(xxiv) buying patterns on said websites or links, to provide end useroutput data; (e) electronically processing said end user output datafrom step (d) to electronically generate second consumer data setsrelated to one or more of (i) said end users, (ii) additional end users,and (iii) target end user groups, said second consumer data setscomprising end user related consumer profiles, trends and targetmarkets, based on said analyzing in step (c); (f) electronicallyprocessing said first and second consumer data sets to generate secondend user geospatial interactive displays using multi-dimensional andscalable geospatial mapping including showing movement from one locationto another and integrated social networking, social networkingcommunity, user profiles, messaging, said second end user geospatialinteractive displays comprising (i) customized second promotional datacollections for separate locations shown on said displays, saidcustomized second promotional data collections comprising (a)promotions, (b) online coupons, (c) mobile services, (d) products, (e)goods, (f) services, (g) entertainment shopping, (h) penny and onlineauctions, (i) bidding, (j) bidding behavior, (k) bidding results, (l)advertisements and affiliate advertising, (m) social networking, (n)social networking communities, (o) social networking activities, (p)user profiles, (q) messaging, (r) online communications, (s) viewingpublic & private user profiles. (t) service providers and relatedcompany information; and (u) local information; and (ii) interactivelinks to social networks, social networking, social networkingcommunities, social networking activities, online communications, userprofiles, messaging, viewing public & private user profiles, socialplugins, promotions, social applications, entertainment shopping, pennyauctions, online auctions, bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results,advertisements and affiliate advertising; and (iii) interactive links towebsites displaying said promotions, online coupons, mobile services,Products, Goods & Services, entertainment shopping, penny auctions,online auctions, bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results,advertisements and affiliate advertising, social networking, socialnetworking communities, social networking activities, search inquiresfor service providers, business centers and affiliates for relatedcompany information and related local information; and (g)electronically displaying on said client mobile device or computersystem said second end user geospatial interactive display provided instep (f).
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A method according to claim 1, wherein said socialnetworking is selected from one or more of access to trusteduser-generated content using social networks, accessing information frommultiple networks, social graphs, and content sites, accumulating socialrelation information for social network services, adaptive packaging ofnetwork resources, adaptive social network management, advertisingproducts to groups within social networks, aggregation of social networkdata, aggregation, standardization and extension of social networkingcontacts to enhance a television consumer experience, application ofsocial networking data, assigning access privileges in a social network,associative memory operators, methods and computer program products forusing a social network for predictive marketing analysis, automaticallylocating web-based social network members, automatically manage socialconnections, auto-shared photo album, biometric social networking,blocking objectionable communications in a social network, broadcastnotifications using social networking systems, clarifying search resultsusing social-networking information, collective socializing using amobile social network, collectively giving gifts in a social networkenvironment, commercializing ideas or inventions, communicating betweenusers, community detection, community translation on a social network,confirming an association in a web-based social network, consumptionmanagement systems and methods integrated with social networks, contentsharing across enterprise social networks, contingent rights exchangeassociated with a social network, controlling access of user informationusing social-networking information, coordinated location awarebrokering of social networks, correlation of psycho-demographic data andsocial network data to initiate an action, creating a social network mapof non-voice communications, creating a social-networking onlinecommunity, cross-network social networking application architecture,defined searching and web crawling, defining user relationships in asocial networking environment, determining a group preference in asocial network, device, system, and method of generating location-basedsocial networks, discerning human intent based on user-generatedmetadata, discovering, creating, using, and managing social networkcircuits, displaying demographic information of members discussingtopics in a forum, dynamically generating a privacy summary, dynamicallygenerating segmented community flyers, dynamically managing a socialnetwork group, dynamically providing a news feed about a user of asocial network, elements of an enterprise event feed, email confirmationpage for social network notifications, enabling location-dependent valueexchange and object of interest identification, enabling messagingbetween users of different social networks and between users of socialnetworks and users of other communication systems, enterprise socialgraph and contextual information presentation, establishing a socialnetwork system based on motif, social status and social attitude,facilitate real time communications between members of a social network,feature propagation, federation and interoperability between socialnetworks, feeding updates to landing pages of users of an online socialnetwork from external sources, file sharing based on social network,friends toolbar for a virtual social venue, generating a feed of storiespersonalized for members of a social network, generating segmentedcommunity flyers in a social networking system, giving gifts anddisplaying assets in a social network environment, graphicalrepresentation of social network vitality, highlighting emailrecipients, hosting a social network that enables granular management ofthe privacy of posted information, hot video prediction system based onuser interests social network, incentivize transactions to enhancesocial goodness, incorporation of variables into textual content,information handling system low power network communications,information security for recovery based social networking, integrating asocial network and data repository to enable map creation, integratingsocial contact identifiers into wagering games, integrating socialnetworking with financial services, integrating social networks andwagering games, integrating updates into a social-networking service,interacting with social networking in an internet protocol televisionsystem, leveraging a social graph from a social network for socialcontext in other systems, leveraging information in a social network forinferential targeting of advertisements, managing information aboutrelationships in a social network via a social timeline, managinginformation flow between members of an online social network, managingorganizational resources, marketing system having multiple fulfillmentchannels and a method for directing a personalized invitation to membersof a social network, markup language for incorporating social networkingsystem information by an external website, measuring social capitalindex in an online social network, mobile device and method of operatingsame to interface content provider website, mobile network operatorcontrolled content to mobile subscribers using social networkingmessages, mobile social networking enabled by bar codes, mobile socialnetworking system and method, modeling social networks using analyticmeasurements of online social media content, modification of socialnetworks via design codes, monetizing a social network platform,monitoring activity of a specified user on internet-based socialnetworks, multi-governance social networking groups, name conflictresolution, name resolution, networking across web based andtelecommunication based portals, observing responses to invitations byusers in a web-based social network, offering discounts, onlinepromotions through a social network-based platform, online promotionsthrough social media networks, organization of a contact list based onsocial network context, page caching for rendering dynamic web pages,page rendering for dynamic web pages, personalized platform foraccessing internet applications, platform for providing a social contextto software applications, predictive resource identification and phaseddelivery of structured documents, presenting social networking eventsvia a television receiver, processing social relation oriented service,profile rating and verification system, promoting shopping informationon a network based social platform, providing an answer to a questionfrom a social network site using a separate messaging site, providingsocial networking content, publish/subscribe mashups for socialnetworks, random voice communications through a social network, rankingsearch results using social-networking information, ranking searchresults based on the frequency of access on the search results by usersof a social-networking system, ranking search results based on thefrequency of clicks on the search results by members of a social networkwho are within a predetermined degree of separation, ranking socialnetwork objects, real time media-based social network notifications,recommending new individuals to be invited into a confirmed socialnetwork based on mined social data, recording usage of an online socialnetwork, relationship characterization and utilization from a user'ssocial networks, remote work sessions, reputation evaluation of onlineusers in a social networking scheme, resource management of socialnetwork applications, scoring individual network competitiveness andnetwork effect in an online social network, searching data in a socialnetwork to provide an answer to an information request, selectingadvertisements for output by a television receiver based on socialnetwork profile data, self funding emergency and other notificationsystem, setting cookies in conjunction with phased delivery ofstructured documents, sharing digital content on a social network,sharing social network information, sharing social networking content ina conference user interface, single login procedure for accessing socialnetwork information across multiple external systems, situation-awaread-hoc social interaction, social behavior analysis and inferring socialnetworks for a recommendation system, social capital, social context forinter-media objects, social graph search system, social graph thatincludes web pages outside of a social networking system, social homepage, social marketing, social mobilized content sharing, social networkanalysis with prior knowledge and non-negative tensor factorization,social network construction based on data association, social networkmarketing plan monitoring method and system, social network messagecategorization systems and methods, social network notifications forexternal updates, social network qualification systems, social networkvirtual private network, social network-driven cooperativecharacterization with non-social network sites, social networkingarchitecture in which profile data hosting is provided by the profileowner, social networking via communications over interactive devices,social notification for a set-top box, storing data related to socialpublishers and associating the data with electronic brand data,suggesting contacts for social networks, tagging digital media,targeting messages to users in a social network, targeting online adsusing social neighborhoods of a social network, targeting third partycontent to users based on social networks, tie strength prediction andsocial media filtration, tracking significant topics of discourse inforums, travel related commercial interactions, use with and integrationinto a video game, user pivot navigation of shared social media, usingsocial information for authenticating a user session, using socialnetworks while respecting access control lists, vehicle based socialnetworking, visual tags for search results generated from social networkinformation, visualization application for mining of social networks,visualizing communications within a social setting, web-based socialnetworking database, weighting social network relationships based oncommunications history, and youth based social networking.
 3. The methodof claim 1, wherein said affiliate advertising comprises one or more of(a) advertising content management system and method; (b) advertisingmethod and product; (c) affiliate distribution of advertisements withcompensation for attention; (d) affiliate system and affiliate device;(e) affiliate system on social networking; (f) affiliated advertisingwidget; (g) apparatus and method for internet advertising and affiliatecompensation; (h) apparatus, method and article to evaluate affiliateperformance; (i) arranging delivery of advertisements over a networksuch as the internet; (j) assured comprehension advertising system; (k)bond issue information management and distribution system; (l) buyingand selling spots for advertisements in mass-market media; (m)centralized affiliated marketplaces systems and methods; (n)computerized networking device with embedded advanced content and webtraffic monetization functionality; (o) context-based transactions usingbroadcast advertising; (p) customer loyalty and advertising; (q)customizing an advertisement; (r) delivery, targeting, and measuringadvertising over networks; (s) electronic publication advertisingsystem; (t) email-based advertising system; (u) evaluating content basedadvertising; (v) internet business co-op with rotating banners; (w)internet-based and tangible referral system; (x) network interactioncorrelation; (y) non-authentication access management system foraffiliated websites linked with advertisement; (z) offering advertisingservices; (a) online platform for web advertisement partnerships andaffiliate advertising; (b) providing purchasing incentives andadvertisements; (c) providing targeted advertisements based on currentactivity; (d) quality-based online advertisement trading system; (e)revenue generation and sharing for content sharing services; (f)selecting a website affiliate based on maximum potential revenuegeneration; (g) selecting personalized non-competitive electronicadvertising for electronic display; (h) self-funded commissionmanagement system; and (ii) service system and mobile communicationterminal for free using of data communication.
 4. The method of claim 1,wherein said method further comprises providing remote computing ormobile device or computer system access and wherein said interactivelinks are selected from Internet sites, feeds, pictures, videos, audioclips, social network, social networking, social networking communities,social networking activities, online communications, messaging, userprofiles, viewing public & private user profiles, social plugins,promotions, social applications, entertainment shopping, penny andonline auctions, bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results,advertisements and affiliate advertising, local promotional data basedon end user's online activity, location, profile, online communication,social plugins, social networking, social networking communities, socialnetworking activities, user profiles, messaging, viewing public &private user profiles, social plugins, social applications,entertainment shopping, penny and online auctions, bidding, biddingbehavior, bidding results, advertisements and affiliate advertising,purchasing, behavior, preferences and buying patterns, online behavior.5. The method of claim 2, wherein said second consumer data sets furthercomprise one selected from contacts information, social network contactinformation, location, online communications, search inquiries, socialnetworking, social networking communities, social networking activities,user profiles, messaging, viewing public & private user profiles, socialplugins, promotions, social applications, embedded advertisements andaffiliate advertising, entertainment shopping, penny and onlineauctions, bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results, purchasing,behavior, preferences and buying pattern information.
 6. The method ofclaim 3, wherein said method further comprises providing said secondconsumer data sets to a third party.
 7. The method of claim 4, whereinsaid third party is selected from a government agency, a creditreporting agency, a company, or a regulatory agency according toapplicable laws and regulations.
 8. The method of claim 5, wherein saidcompany is selected from a financial services company, a productcompany, a services company, a retailer, a real estate company, anentertainment company, a penny or online auction, or other type ofservice company.
 9. The method of claim 3, wherein said secondpromotional data collections are based at least in part on priorpurchase history of one or more end users.
 10. The method of claim 1,wherein The method of claim 2, wherein said second consumer data setsfurther comprise one selected from statistics regarding donations,humanitarian aid and sustainable gifts made by the end users or otherend users.
 11. The method of claim 8, wherein said method furthercomprises providing said statistics to said end user, other end users,or third parties.
 12. The method of claim 1, wherein said method furthercomprises said end user designating a portion of a purchase, orproviding links or websites to said end user, to provide charitablecontributions, humanitarian aid, or loans or credit online or via amobile device or wireless device through a server or microloans.
 13. Amethod of claim 1, wherein said product or service is selected from thegroup consisting of retail, wholesale, travel, hospitality, real estate,educational services, entertainment shopping services, penny and onlineauction services, service provider services, loan services, loans orcredit online or via a mobile device or wireless device through a serverbusiness center services, affiliate services, or related products orservices.
 14. A method of claim 11, wherein said search inquiry is forreal estate related online coupons, mobile services, products, goods orservices, entertainment shopping, penny and online auctions, bidding,bidding behavior, bidding results, advertisements and affiliateadvertising, and wherein a. said real estate product or good is selectedfrom social networking, social networking communities, social networkingactivities, online communications, user profiles, messaging, viewingpublic & private user profiles, social plugs, promotions, socialapplications, entertainment shopping, penny and online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising, and search inquiries for thesale or lease of vacant land, residential real estate, commercial realestate, recreational real estate, retail, shopping, hotels, motels, golfcourses, resorts, marinas, industrial real estate, vacation, timeshares, condominiums, multifamily, dwellings; b. said real estateservice is selected from social networking, social networkingcommunities, social networking activities, user profiles, messaging,viewing public & private user profiles, social plugins, promotions,social applications, entertainment shopping, penny and online auctions,advertisements and affiliate advertising and search inquiries for travelagents, brokers, agents, relocation services, internet marketing,concierge, transportation, travel and hospitality services, lenders,appraisers, education, developers, contractors, inspectors, homeimprovements/remodeling, basement designs, landscaping, home warranties,insurance, indoor and outdoor furniture, fixtures, windows, siding,roofing, heating/cooling, solar, plumbing, electrical, mechanical, HVAC,or repair, renovation or addition services.
 15. The method of claim 1,wherein said Internet access in step (a) is subject to identityverification.
 16. The method of claim 1, wherein the social networkinglinks are provided as one selected from location, online communications,search inquiries, social networking, social networking communities,social networking activities, user profiles, messaging, viewing public &private user profiles, social plugins, promotions, social applications,entertainment shopping, penny and online auctions, bidding, biddingbehavior, bidding results, messaging, viewing public & private userprofiles, social plugins, social applications user profiles,advertisements and affiliate advertising, SSLs, cookies, and embeddedadvertisements and affiliate advertising.
 17. The method of claim 1,wherein promotion or service comprises (1) travel and hospitalityrelated search inquiries; (2) real estate or ancillary services relatedsearch inquiries or (3) search inquiries related to one selected fromeducation services, entertainment services, penny and online auctionservices, business center services or affiliated services; or (4) job oremployment search inquiries.
 18. The method of claim 1, wherein saidlocal information comprises information about people, places ofinformation, companies, businesses, weather or roads, which can be addedor removed as layers on said display showing said geospatial mapping.19. The method of claim 1, wherein said method further comprisesbehavior tracking communications with social networking, socialnetworking communities, social networking activities, onlinecommunications, user profiles, messaging, viewing public & private andother social networks.
 20. A method of claim 1, wherein said promotions,online coupons, mobile services, products, goods or services areselected from entertainment shopping, penny and online auctions,bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results, advertisements and affiliateadvertising, location, online communications, search inquiries, socialnetworking, social networking communities, social networking activities,online communications, user profiles, messaging, viewing public &private user profiles, social plugins, promotions, social applications,online coupons, mobile services, products, goods or services,entertainment shopping, penny auctions, online auctions, bidding,bidding behavior, bidding results, advertisements and affiliateadvertising, embedded advertisements and affiliate advertising bygeo-target location, daily deal coupons, free or discounted printablecoupons, business directories, advertisements and affiliate advertising,text, SMS marketing, search, multimedia, operating systems, devices,loans or credit online or via a mobile device or wireless device througha server, banking, payment, wallet or electronic payments, expresscheckout, money transfer, social media, keywords, coupons, instantmessaging marketing, voting, e-cards, short codes, commerce, shopping,push content, geo-information, geo-social information, and searchinquiries for daily deal coupons, art, penny auctions, online auctions,e-commerce, m-commerce, media and entertainment, sports, personalnetworks, financial networks, travel and hospitality services, realestate, educational services, ancillary services, advertisements andaffiliate advertising, service providers and business owners, businesscenter services, healthcare services, financial services, consumerproducts, specialty retail, media, entertainment, lenders, mortgagecompanies, online dating, gaming, retail stores, virtual communities,and virtual goods.
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A computer system for providing social networkinginteractions using internet and mobile websites and related computersystems that provide end user customized interactive displays of threedimensional geospatial maps comprising end user customized promotions,online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services, and relatedcompany and local information, said first and second end user displaysgenerated using a three dimensional geospatial platform usingmulti-dimensional and scalable geospatial mapping, said systemcomprising: (a) a system component for electronically assigning on amobile device or computer system an identifier to a client computerreceiving a request from said end user via a client applicationoperating on said client computer for Internet access to websites orlinks; (b) a system component for electronically providing on a mobiledevice or computer system access to said websites or links that providethree dimensional geospatial interactive displays including showingmovement from one location to another, said computer system comprising acombination of: (i) first consumer data sets used to generate first enduser geospatial interactive displays using multi-dimensional andscalable geospatial mapping and integrated social networking, said firstend user geospatial interactive displays comprising (a) firstpromotional data collections for separate locations shown on saiddisplays, said first promotional data collections comprising  (i)promotions,  (ii) online coupons,  (iii) mobile services,  (iv)products,  (v) goods,  (vi) services,  (vii) entertainment shopping, (viii) penny and online auctions,  (ix) bidding,  (x) bidding behavior, (xi) bidding results,  (xii) advertisements and affiliate advertising, (xiii) social networking,  (xiv) social networking communities & socialnetworking activities,  (xv) user profiles,  (xvi) messaging,  (xvii)online communications,  (xviii) viewing public & private user profiles, (xix) service providers,  (xx) business centers and affiliatedservices,  (xxi) related company information,  (xii) local information;and (b) interactive links to social networks, social networking, socialnetworking communities, social networking activities, onlinecommunications, messaging, user profiles, viewing public & private userprofiles, social plugins, promotions, social applications, entertainmentshopping, penny and online auctions, bidding, bidding behavior, biddingresults, advertisements and affiliate advertising; and (c) interactivelinks to websites displaying said promotions, online coupons, mobileservices, Products, Goods & Services, entertainment services, penny andonline auctions, bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results,advertisements and affiliate advertising, social networking, socialnetworking communities, social networking activities and search inquiresfor service providers, business centers and affiliated services, andrelated company information and related local information; (c) a systemcomponent for electronically displaying on said client mobile device orcomputer system said first end user geospatial interactive displayprovided in step (b); (d) a system component for electronicallymonitoring, collecting and analyzing, using a mobile device or computerdata analysis system, said end user data relating to end user's onlineactivity, location, online communications, search inquiries, socialnetworking, social networking communities, social networking activities,online communications, messaging, user profiles, viewing public &private user profiles, social plugins, promotions, social applications,entertainment shopping, penny and online auctions, bidding, biddingbehavior, bidding results, advertisements and affiliate advertising,purchasing, behavior, preferences and buying patterns on said websitesor links, to provide end user output data; (e) a system component forelectronically processing said end user output data from step (d) toelectronically generate second consumer data sets related to one or moreof i. said end users, ii. additional end users, and iii. target end usergroups, said second consumer data comprising end user related consumerprofiles, trends and target markets, based on said analyzing in step(c); (f) electronically processing said first and second consumer datasets to generate second end user geospatial interactive displays usingmulti-dimensional and scalable geospatial mapping including showingmovement from one location to another and integrated social networking,said second end user geospatial interactive displays comprising (i)customized second promotional data collections for separate locationsshown on said displays, said customized second promotional datacollections comprising (a) promotions, (b) online coupons, (c) mobileservices, (d) products, (e) goods, (f) services, (g) entertainmentshopping, (h) penny and online auctions, (i) bidding, (j) biddingbehavior, (k) bidding results, (l) advertisements and affiliateadvertising, (m) social networking, (n) social networking communities,(o) user profiles, (p) messaging, (q) online communications, (r) viewingpublic & private user profiles, (s) service providers; (t) businesscenters and affiliated services, (u) related company information; and(v) local information; and (ii) interactive links to social networks,online communications, social networking, social networking communities,social networking activities, messaging, user profiles, messaging,viewing public & private user profiles, social plugins, promotions,social applications, entertainment shopping, penny and online auctions,bidding, bidding behavior, bidding results, advertisements and affiliateadvertising; and (iii) interactive links to websites displaying saidpromotions, online coupons, mobile services, Products, Goods & Services,entertainment shopping, penny and online auctions, bidding, biddingbehavior, bidding results, advertisements and affiliate advertising,social networking, social networking communities, social networkingactivities and search inquires for service providers, business centers,and affiliated services, and related company information and relatedlocal information; (g) electronically displaying on said client mobiledevice or computer system said second end user geospatial interactivedisplay provided in step (f).